Back before Corridors with alphabet names dotted the landscape with wide open pathways for comfortable travel, I would walk to visit my grandmother. It took walking through three backyards and down a long hill to cross Oakwood Road before I could reach her house, my father's home place. On Saturdays ...

Fantasy fuels much of the world of fashion. Fashion editors shape magazines based on creative flights of fancy, freely admitting that what they shoot on runways will rarely be worn and in some cases not even made. These pages are so filled with glamorous photos of "IT" girls, socialites and ...

Party Dressing Lynne D. Schwabe Feature Photography by Joe Mandeville When I am not in Charleston I live in Middleburg, Virginia; a village stuffed with people who spend their time riding horses, counting their money and overseeing minions who manicure their large estates. Since our social lives are not, as ...