Style & Design
July 1, 1991
Boots and Me
In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.
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Business
January 1, 1991
God’s Jeweler
Piety or passion: The trials of James Avery, craftsman.
Style & Design
September 1, 1990
Flights of Fantasy
There’s primeval magic in ordinary fashions.
Style & Design
July 1, 1990
Born to Be Naughty
Travels with Eric Kimmel, l’enfant terrible of Dallas, Paris, and a Limoges jail.
Style & Design
February 1, 1990
The Truth About Texas Beauty
She might have long legs, blond hair, and eyes as blue as a Panhandle sky. But a Texas woman isn’t really beautiful unless she works at it.
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Art
December 1, 1989
Get Along, Little Doggies
Well-shod supermodel Fay Ray steps out in true Texas style.
Style & Design
November 1, 1989
Creature Comforts
Horns, hooves, and hides for the home.
Style & Design
May 1, 1989
Talking Heads
In some Texas establishments it’s hard to tell the boys’ from the girls’.
Style & Design
December 1, 1988
True Stories
What happens when ordinary people put on extraordinary clothes?
Style & Design
November 1, 1988
Honorable Toys
Godzilla lives! Just ask any Texas collector of Japanese action figures.
Style & Design
November 1, 1988
Can You Take a Hint?
Heloise, America’s best-known homemaker, has a dirty little secret: she hates to clean house. If you hate it too, she’s convinced that you need her more than ever.
Style & Design
September 1, 1988
Hot Pots
How did bluebonnets and cacti get that glazed look?
Style & Design
August 1, 1988
Shades of Summer
Let there be light, but leave us in the dark. Long before Ozona knew about ozone, Texans were inventing scads of ways to hide from rays.
Style & Design
July 1, 1988
¡Fiesta Wear!
With these lively Mexican skirts, what goes around comes around.
Style & Design
July 1, 1988
Bargains! Bargains! Bargains!
Attention, tightwads! Act now! Suits to nuts—the big bang for the little buck! Check out our supersavin’, dollar-bustin’ bible of buys! Everything must go! (Offer available in Texas only.)
Style & Design
May 1, 1988
Don’t Even Ask!
Why is it that your favorite item in every antique store is bound to be the one thing that money can’t buy?
Style & Design
January 1, 1988
Ode on a Hempstead Urn
That concrete urn you bought by the side of the road is making decorating history.
Style & Design
December 1, 1987
Most Likely to Succeed
Seven outstanding young Texas design students translate their visions of fairy tales, Greek goddesses, and Catholic rituals into fashion statements.
Style & Design
October 1, 1987
Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Naugahyde Roams
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when dude ranch decor reigned supreme in the family room.
Style & Design
September 1, 1987
The Fantasy World of Victor Costa
Texas’ most famous dress designer dreamed up the perfect evening gown for the average American woman—it’s frilly, it’s flashy, and it’s a $300 copy of a $15,000 Paris original.
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Style & Design
December 1, 1986
And a Piñata in a Pear Tree
In eight square blocks of Nuevo Laredo you can sample a cactus taco, hone your bargaining skills, and buy the best Christmas gifts on the border.
Style & Design
January 1, 1986
Lone Star Shtick
Part of it was my fault. But I insist on sharing the blame with Tommy Tune, Judi Buie, Dan Jenkins, Mort Cooperman, Dandy Don Meredith, New York Daily News gossip columnist Liz Smith, a terrible—and now mercifully defunct—restaurant called the Dallas Cowboy, numerous Texas-based kicker-pickers like Willie Nelson, Jerry
Style & Design
December 1, 1985
Texas Primer: The His and Her Gift
Once upon a time the His and Her Gift reflected a Texas that was extravagant and maybe a little gauche. Now the gift is no less extravagant, but it’s a lot less, well, innocent.
Style & Design
May 1, 1985
Crack Pots
One man’s Mexican pot is another man’s collectible.
Style & Design
April 30, 1985
Texas Primer: The Western Shirt
Today’s cowboy can thank Hollywood designers for the shirt on his back.
Style & Design
December 1, 1984
O Christmas Tree
For a perfectly decorated tree, call Tom Osborn. But only if money is no object.
Style & Design
November 1, 1984
How to Buy a Dress Without Going to the Store
Shopping from catalogs can keep you in fashion and out of the malls.
Style & Design
May 31, 1984
Move Over, Southfork
Up for sale in Dallas, the Shanbaum house boasts a whopping 28,000 square feet and what may be Texas’ most comprehensive collection of sixties and seventies kitsch—along with a $2.75 million price tag.
Style & Design
May 31, 1984
Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat
Whether it’s made of straw or ermine, this is the cowboy hat.
Style & Design
April 1, 1984
The Ponytail
Warm spring days call for giving in to new clothes and a neck-baring hairdo.
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.
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Style & Design
November 1, 1983
The Wild Ones
Quick! Get out your furs before it gets hot again.
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.
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Style & Design
July 1, 1980
Oh, You Beautiful Mall
Where else but the Galleria could you find a lavender lace Western dress, a Persian turquoise necklace, and Texas’ most expensive potato chips?
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.