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I look at this 1965 Balenciaga ensemble and try to work out the moment at which humanity took a wrong turning

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Dale Guthrie cooked a stew from the mummified bison Blue Babe in 1984

There have been other occasions when modern people ate frozen representatives of the Pleistocene megafauna found in icy landscapes. And I am not speaking of Andrew Bergman's crime comedy "The Freshman", in which, for a million dollars, Hawaiian tiger fish mixed with smoked turkey was served

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Mammoth meat at the 1951 Explorers Club dinner in New York turned out to be turtle

At one party or another one hears it boasted how epic it is, and how it will certainly go down in history. The tale of heavily pomaded guests sewn about on every side with jewels, in whatever numbers they may be presented, is, however, as old as the Proverbs of

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Fashion is fashion, but perhaps you had better see a trichologist?

The First Doctor Who, William Hartnell, tries on a wig

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I dream of a sleigh like this the way one might dream of a new X5 (that dream still stands, just so you know)

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pov: all the Instagram girls look alike, strike the same poses and wear the same outfits

Princess Maria Annunciata of Liechtenstein and Princess Maria Astrid of Liechtenstein at their weddings, three weeks apart, in the very same pearl and diamond earrings from their mother's wedding:

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As they say, if you want to be the most fashionable item at any party

As they say, if you want to be the most fashionable item at any party. Don't thank me, just think several steps ahead. You might even solve a crime

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A reminder that one need not leave the house at all

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Are You Ready to Sign a Petition in Defence of the Duchy of Burgundy?

A young woman in a bright headscarf writes at a desk with an inkstand, with ears of wheat, letters and a book beside her.

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Konstantin Dorokhov’s painting “Deputy. Collective Farm Chairwoman”, created in 1951

The Soviet Union had not only sex but also magnificent women deputies, and, of course, excellent feminitives. Konstantin Gavrilovich Dorokhov, "Deputy. Collective Farm Chairwoman", 1951

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For lovers of the inapposite but grandiloquent turn of phrase: yes, you can now say you have seen Marcel Proust in his coffin

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Medieval image of a woman hammering infants on an anvil personifies Nature

The popular medieval scene of a woman pounding infants laid on an anvil with a blacksmith's hammer is in fact a personification of Nature, who gives birth to children in her forge. She is merely giving her offspring the proper shape, so there is nothing to gawp at