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	<description>Real people write about life wearing Ivey Abitz garments.</description>
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		<title>Southern Sartorial Elegance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Anita in the South]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anita in the South I am Southern, born and bred. Growing up, my grandmothers made many of my outfits and by age ten, I was sewing in 4-H. I know the hours of work that go into the touches, the details, that make an ensemble not only look perfect but FEEL perfect. I have spent many an evening as a teen, taking out stitching that wasn&#8217;t just so and pinning for top stiching, lapping seams, laying a pattern so that the designs in the fabric would flow, and basting for hours. My mother had a seamstress, Miss Barton, that made many of her outfits, bound button holes, detailing, even her own labels, and I would ride with her for her fittings. (Any of you recall Leiter fabrics??) My mother would never have been caught wearing the same dress as someone else. Growing up Southern in the late 50&#8242;s and 60&#8242;s, the fashion rules that had been laid down for generations still held and will be with me always. We NEVER wore white after Labor Day or straw before Easter. Ladies did not wear jeans. I was 21 before I even tried on a pair! (Apologies to those of you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYC in Ivey Abitz and Memories of a Fashionable Great-Grandmother</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Deborah in Rhode Island

Travels with my new Solomon Skirt: My VW Bug and I made it to Brooklyn by early evening on Saturday. A 9 p.m. dinner at Luz with friends and I'm still wearing my lovely Solomon Skirt. I feel luxurious in it - designed by Cynthia Ivey Abitz and made perfectly for me by extraordinary hands. Not a wrinkle from sitting in a car for four hours. A sip of my minty Mojiito and I feel positively glamorous.]]></description>
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		<title>The Phrase Vintage Inspired Clothes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, I made a pledge to wear as little mass-produced clothing as possible and started to seek out individual designers and websites that featured handmade items. 

Little did I know that by innocently Googling the phrase “vintage inspired clothes” one day last summer would cause me to become an addict.]]></description>
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		<title>Ivey Abitz from the Inside Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than any of the compliments, though, it felt so good to wear, and instantly elevated my mood and reminded me of the transformative power of a well-conceived, beautifully handcrafted article of clothing that was literally made just for me. I was reminded of my powerful desire to both create and be surrounded by beauty, and what it does for me from the inside out.]]></description>
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