Shop for Yourself

Julia Sneden writes: Just leave me alone with my books, my real, physical, weighty books. Just try entering “e-book” into Google, if you want a lesson in technological confusion. Our public libraries are struggling with the parameters of e-book usage as are the publishers more »

Consider the 1950s 'Rose & Bow' Dress, a design adopted developed from an original day dress in the V&A's archives. Fitted waist and boice, free hips, 100 % cotton. The dress is worn over a "Superwhoosh"1950s petticoat for additional volume more »

Doris O'Brien writes: "I bought a pair of chic, shiny blue wedgies to wear as Mother of the Bride. They matched my dress and felt gratifyingly comfortable. By the end of the ceremony, I was being whisked back in a golf cart to my hotel room in order to change shoes, so that I could dance at the wedding." more »

"Basically, what VideoMining does is use software along with cameras mounted on the ceiling of stores to track shoppers as they move around the store and create data that helps us understand how shoppers are shopping" more »