Style & Design
April 1, 1984
The Ponytail
Warm spring days call for giving in to new clothes and a neck-baring hairdo.
Style & Design
Your source for tips, stories, and interviews about the worlds of Texas fashion, interior design, architecture, and more.
Style & Design
February 1, 1984
Texas Primer: The Texas Timex
Ever since LBJ’s gold Rolex appeared next to his gall bladder scar in news photographs, Texans have been buying the pricey timepieces by the carload.
Style & Design
January 1, 1984
Texas Primer: The Collins Purse
In the sixties a small company in Medina produced a wooden box decorated with rhinestones. It became a Texas tradition.
By
Mimi Swartz
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Style & Design
September 1, 1983
Johnson & Johnson
In a glass-and-steel world of Houston skyscrapers, there was nothing like an art deco obelisk or a pink Gothic cathedral until architect Philip Johnson.
Style & Design
May 31, 1983
Texas Primer: The Name Belt
Wearing one won’t make you a real live cowboy, but it sure will brand you as a modern Texan.
Style & Design
March 1, 1983
Lyndon Johnson, Hairdresser, Prepares for Battle
The long afternoons of the best friend the rich women of Houston have ever had.
Style & Design
December 1, 1982
Piece by Piece
Out of Texas’ ragbag history came the patchwork quilt, the product of cold winters, isolated homesteads, empty pocketbooks, and fertile minds.
Style & Design
December 1, 1982
The Light Before Christmas
String the lights, hang the tinsel and the expense. It’s Christmas and the decorated homes of Texans are second to none.
Style & Design
November 1, 1982
Sensations
Was the partridge in a pear tree you gave last Christmas not fully appreciated? Our sensational gift ideas will save you this year.
Style & Design
September 1, 1982
The Inside Skinny on Dallas Designers
Who’s who, and who’s doing what to whom: a brief guide.
Style & Design
September 1, 1982
The Empress’s New Clothes
What you won’t see from Dallas designers is lots of froufrou. What you will see is a look tailored for the working woman.
Style & Design
April 1, 1982
The Architects
Welcome to Houston, the cutting edge of architecture. The local boys are turning a gentlemen’s profession into a business, the stylish out-of-towners are creating a new aesthetic, and neither group is filled with admiration for the other.
Style & Design
November 1, 1981
Power Plays
Wait! Don’t buy that gas-slurping motorboat and energy-squandering food processor for Christmas. We modestly propose some thrifty alternatives.
Style & Design
February 1, 1981
Total Fabrications
When machine-printed polyester or rayon won’t do, consider the work of Texas’ top textile artists.
Style & Design
January 1, 1981
Rags to Riches
When buyers and sellers converge on Dallas’s Apparel Mart for a week-long orgy of fashionable commerce, high style and discriminating taste confront the cold reality of the bottom line.
Style & Design
December 1, 1980
No Man’s Land
Welcome to Highland Park, a small town right in the middle of Dallas where the living is easy and time stands still.
Style & Design
November 1, 1980
Hecho en Mexico
There’s no Christmas like a south-of-the-border Christmas, with gift ideas to match.
By
Patricia Sharpe
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and
Cyndy Severson
Style & Design
June 30, 1980
My Home, the Galleria
Texas’ most glamorous mall has all the comforts of home and then some. So why not move in?
Being Texan
January 1, 1980
Elegant Fossils
Once Texas was a land of fabulous, ornate county courthouses. It still is, but today they’re flamboyant relics in our streamlined urban landscapes.
Style & Design
November 1, 1979
Grand Indulgences
Whether you have $2 to spend or $25,000, our Christmas gift selections show how to have a wonderfully indulgent holiday.
Business
October 1, 1979
The Man Who Built River Oaks
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.
Style & Design
July 1, 1979
Haute as a Pistol
Houston welcomes a classy Paris fashion designer with a rootin', tootin', ripsnortin' wild West show.
Style & Design
May 1, 1979
Making It
Six Texas artisans are busy putting the craft back in craftsmanship.
Business
April 1, 1979
The Hot Pink Empire of Mary Kay Ash
She learned the truth about selling cosmetics. Her customers didn’t want to buy products, they wanted to buy dreams.
Style & Design
November 1, 1978
A Country Christmas
Holiday gift ideas with a true rustic flavor.
Style & Design
September 30, 1978
The Cap That Won The West
The newest style of manly hatwear.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Expensive People
At the top, a good family helps, clothes help, manners help, the right friends help, but nothing helps like money.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Cabin Fever
Years ago, kids used to play pioneer with Lincoln Logs. Today grown-ups are playing pioneer—only with real log cabins.
Style & Design
April 1, 1978
Plastic Fantastic
“Plastics,” the man whispered to Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Graduate,’ and plastics—transformed from junk into art—it is.
Style & Design
February 1, 1978
Open House
Now for something completely different: a house that’s not rectangles or squares.
Style & Design
January 1, 1978
Art Yucko
How we learned to stop worrying and love the fifties.
Style & Design
December 1, 1977
Living in Glass Houses
The world is full of monuments to art—but how many can you live in?
Business
December 1, 1977
King of the Catalogs
Who is Roger Horchow and why is he doing these terrible things to our Christmas budgets?
Style & Design
August 31, 1977
The House That Art Built
What do you do when you have more paintings than walls to hang them on?
Style & Design
July 31, 1977
Gone With The Wind
Fans: lovely to look at, delightful to feel.
Design
June 30, 1977
Hello, Walls
When is a wall not a wall? When it's a work of art.
Style & Design
May 31, 1977
Restoration Drama
A Texas farmhouse relives those thrilling days of yesteryear.
Style & Design
March 1, 1977
The Great Border Bazaar
We walk the line for you—from Matamoros to Juárez—to bring you the best of Mexican shopping.
Style & Design
December 1, 1976
Out of the Closet
Texas fashion is not exactly a rags-to-riches story.
Style & Design
November 1, 1976
A Texas Christmas
We invite you to look our gift guide in the mouth.
Style & Design
August 31, 1976
That Certain Look
From alpha to omega, you can’t tell the sorority girls apart without a scorecard.
Style & Design
August 31, 1976
Sisterhood is Powerful
Especially for sorority sisters.
Style & Design
August 31, 1976
Texas on My Feet
If the boot fits, wear it.
Style & Design
June 30, 1976
The Great Coverup
Some rugged individuals are called to the carpet.
Style & Design
April 1, 1976
The Highland Park Woman
Splendor in the suburbs.
Style & Design
April 1, 1976
Stationery
The proof of your imagination is in the paper.
Style & Design
December 1, 1975
The White Shoe
Sole food for Middle America.
Style & Design
November 1, 1975
Is Your Life Dull? Is Your Environment Boring?
Four interior designers tell what they can do within four walls.
Style & Design
March 31, 1975
Carousel
Taking a nostalgic turn around some old merry-go-rounds.
Style & Design
September 30, 1974
The Sweet Smile of Success
In some cases beauty is not even skin deep.