Texas History
April 1, 1994
Fit for a Queen
A look back at San Antonio Fiesta gowns reveals how the dresses have gone from elegant to excessive.
Fashion
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Style & Design
December 1, 1992
Hooray for Big Hair!
A strand-by-strand look at the roots of a Texas phenomenon.
Style & Design
November 1, 1992
Ins and Outlets
All around the state, shoppers angle for the perfect catch.
Style & Design
August 31, 1992
Crew’s Control
Bare and spare, J. Crew’s newest retail outlet pays homage to refined minimalism.
Style & Design
July 1, 1991
Boots and Me
In Texas, the cowboy boot still makes the man.
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
December 1, 1988
True Stories
What happens when ordinary people put on extraordinary clothes?
Style & Design
July 1, 1988
¡Fiesta Wear!
With these lively Mexican skirts, what goes around comes around.
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
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.
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
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.
Style & Design
November 1, 1983
The Wild Ones
Quick! Get out your furs before it gets hot again.
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
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
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
July 1, 1979
Haute as a Pistol
Houston welcomes a classy Paris fashion designer with a rootin', tootin', ripsnortin' wild West show.
Style & Design
September 30, 1978
The Cap That Won The West
The newest style of manly hatwear.
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
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.
Texas History
January 1, 1977
How to Be Southern
Southwestern is out, Southern is in. Here’s how to renew our charter membership.
Style & Design
December 1, 1976
Out of the Closet
Texas fashion is not exactly a rags-to-riches story.
Health
November 1, 1976
Vanity Fair
The Greenhouse is where the rich and the chic go to play I spa.
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
April 1, 1976
The Highland Park Woman
Splendor in the suburbs.
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
September 30, 1974
The Sweet Smile of Success
In some cases beauty is not even skin deep.
Style & Design
June 30, 1974
Off, Off Damned Coat
Since our wearables often become unbearable, here’s a bold alternative.
Style & Design
January 1, 1974
Temple of Cloth
The Apparel Mart in Dallas clothes Middle America. Their merchandise may not win many fashion awards, but it sells, and sells, and sells.
Style & Design
September 30, 1973
Suit Yourself!
From underwear to trenchcoats, everything you never knew about men's fashions answered.
Style & Design
September 30, 1973
In Search of Style
Two women on a shopping trip in Dallas and San Antonio reveal the fashion secret rarely told--how to develop your own style.