title: Decades of Fashion
author:  Harriet Worsley 
description: Dallas Voice Holiday Gift Guide <br /><br /><br /><br />"Spanning the glamour of the 1930's to the pop culture extremes of the 1980's, the new 600 page book Decades of Fashion is ideal for any lover of couture. The pictorial review of fashion through the 20th century covers corsets to kaftans and so much more"<br /><br /><br /><br />Decades of Fashion<br /><br />ISBN 978-3-8331-6113-1 <br /><br /><br /><br />DECADES OF FASHION, SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER - "a book fashion-lovers will want as a reference, and even people cursorily interested in fashion will find much to interest them."<br /><br /><br /><br />DECADES OF FASHION, TALL DARK ROAST - "From the glamour of the 30s to the extremes of the 80s, this volume offers an impressive pictorial overview of the fashion world of the entire twentieth century.<br /><br /><br /><br />
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  # Ladies Must Live
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Alice Duer Miller
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
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  LADIES MUST LIVE
  
  
  by
  
  
  ALICE DUER MILLER
  
  
  Author of “Come Out of the Kitchen,” etc.
  
  
  1917
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  Mrs. Ussher was having a small house party in the country over New
  
  
  Year's Day. This is equivalent to saying that the half dozen most
  
  
  fashionable people in New York were out of town.
  
  
    
  Certain human beings are admitted to have a genius for
  
  
  discrimination in such matters as objects of art, pigs or stocks. Mrs.
  
  
  Ussher had this same instinct in regard to fashion, especially where
  
  
  fashions in people were concerned. She turned toward hidden social
  
  
  availability very much as the douser's hazel wand turns 