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New services on The Style Page blog UPDATED

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We’ve added buttons to enable readers to add content from our blog to news readers offered by Bloglines and My Yahoo! For those people who would like to receive updates by Email, we’ve added a form so that they may subscribe via Bloglet.

Check out what others say about us by clicking on the link Blogs that link here on the left sidebar.

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Google AdSense now offers vendors the opportunity to advertise directly on this blog.

UPDATE December 21, 2005:

The Style Page blog has joined BlogExplosion. Other bloggers who are also members of BlogExplosion can “rent” space on The Style Page blog to promote their own blog.

We also have inserted a stats counter for this blog – scroll down the left sidebar to view. Right now I see that we have a visitor from Ireland – welcome!

Lastly, welcome to our new subscribers through Bloglines and Bloglet!

Fashion pages updated

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Between welcoming the in-laws from overseas and preparing to spend Christmas with my parents in St. Louis, I somehow found time to update the Fashion pages on The Style Page.


Model 001/SG from Belen Echandia, one of the new sites listed on Bags and Luggage – red for Christmas.

Check out the new additions on the apparel, intimates, accessories, shoes, bags and luggage, and jewelry pages!

NYTimes.com: ‘Style’ Gets New Elements UPDATE

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DWR Design Notes provides illustrations from the new edition of Strunk & White’s “Elements of Style”

ARTS   | October 19, 2005

'Style' Gets New Elements
By JEREMY EICHLER
The first illustrated edition of “Elements of Style” features artwork by Maira Kalman, and an accompanying song cycle by Nico Muhly.

(Free) registration required to read full article. Find other references through our Books page: these are listed “below the fold,” so you’ll have to scroll down the page.

Make-Up Test

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New Haven Advocate: Make-Up Test
Boots make-up is a kick in the head for fashionistas

A review of Boots No 7 and Botanics makeup lines, which are being introduced into the U.S. through select CVS and Target stores.

Writer Jackie Senno asks, “What’s best about Boots?” If I were to answer that question, I’d say this statement from their brochure on No 7:

“We all know that beauty is more than skin deep – but for women, it’s one of life’s pleasures, a chance for a moment of ‘me-time'”

which is a very nice summation of the appeal of cosmetics for me and for many others.

Beauty update and a special offer

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We’ve updated our Beauty pages and added many new links, especially to our Cosmetics and Fragrance pages.

Di Kennedy Studio Colour from Australia is one of the new additions to The Style Page. Di characterizes her range as “professional quality, ultra girlie.” I am impressed by the range of products and shades that she offers.

I am pleased to announce that Di Kennedy Studio Colour is offering a 10% discount exclusive to readers of The Style Page. To take advantage of this offer, please enter STYLE in the comments box upon checkout.

Prices are given in Australian currency, so readers outside Australia might want to use a currency converter such as FXConverter from OANDA to estimate the purchase amount of their order.

A Literary Anniversary

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Just as I am reading Mark Twain’s Following The Equator, a memoir of his 1897 world tour, About Literature:Classic reminds me that November 30 is his birthday and provides some of his witty aphorisms.

The New York Times named Mark Twain: A Life, a recent biography by Ron Powers as among its 100 Notable Books of the Year.

Cozy pajamas

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I’m not a fan of J.Jill, but I love these Winter Wonderland Pajamas. These pajamas feature ribbon seam binding on the collar, elastic waist with ribbon drawstring, a faux button fly, and wide legs. The fabric is cotton with a little spandex, and best of all, is brushed both
inside and out, so it’s extra cozy for cold evenings and mornings.

One week left: Exclusive GWP offer from Closet Fetish

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Closet Fetish’s shoe boxes have been featured in Shop ETC and most recently, the November 2005 issue of InStyle. The Style Page is excited to provide its readers an exclusive gift with purchase offer in partnership with Closet Fetish.

Buy $100.00 of products from Closet Fetish and get a free shoe box. You might upgrade from plastic tube hangers or (God forbid) wire hangers and buy the Couture Starter Set ($105) with 6 wooden hangers and six shoe boxes to organize your closet or you can buy any combination of products totaling $100.00.

We’re making this offer available throughout the month of November. To take advantage of this offer, make your selections at Closet Fetish, go to check out (you will be switched to PayPal), and leave a message in the gift message section indicating which color shoe box you would want for free. Please mention that you found out about the offer through The Style Page!

Sommer Meyer, President, Closet Fetish also volunteers this timely idea she received from a customer: buy the red boxes for Christmas boxes and in the frame where the picture goes, put a photo of the person getting the gift. Tie all the boxes with gold ribbon and the package looks great under the Christmas tree.

Estee Lauder ups its hipness quotient with Tom Ford, Gwyneth Paltrow

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The Estee Lauder Companies are working hard to re-energize their flagship Estee Lauder label. Last April, The Style Page noted Tom Ford’s venture with Estee Lauder. In June, I noted Gwyneth Paltrow’s contract with Estee Lauder to appear in their advertising campaigns. Only now are we seeing the results of these two ventures.

I was at Nordstrom in Tysons Corner last week, and a visiting makeup artist from Estee Lauder told me that only Neiman-Marcus and Saks are carrying the color products from the Tom Ford Collection. I then went to Saks, where the saleswoman told me that the Estee Lauder company was giving only small quantities of the products in the Tom Ford Collection to individual stores: for example, this Saks store received only one compact of solid perfume in Youth Dew Amber Nude (selling for $175!). The Eau du Parfum spray is strong enough to curl your toes, although Youth Dew Amber Nude is supposed to be lighter than original Youth Dew. I tested five lipsticks from the Tom Ford Collection ranging from a shimmering champagne to a shade that looked like malted milk to a deep plummy brown. The Tom Ford Collection also offers a subdued pinkish bronzer. I didn’t find anything I wanted, thanked the saleswoman for her time, and walked away.

I have not been able to find the Tom Ford Collection sold online on esteelauder.com. I also tried saks.com, as the Tom Ford Collection premiered at its Fifth Avenue store, but all I could find available was the Eau du Parfum spray. With the way that Estee Lauder is limiting supply of the Tom Ford Collection, it’s no surprise that these products are up for bid on eBay!