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October 19, 2007
In the clutch

Turn the clock back 60 or so years and you’ll likely have a fashion flashback: Pencil skirts, swing coats, chunky high heels. This is the season of ‘40s-inspired style: sexy, demure and polished.

What you won’t see with this look is the beloved leather satchel, our mobile home on the run. Clutches, born of necessity during material shortages of World War II, have made a creative comeback.

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Posted by Andrea Nemitz at 09:46 AM
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Andrea Nemitz is online day editor at pressherald.com.

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in journalism and has been at the papers since 1986 as a photo editor, features editor and business editor. She and her husband, columnist Bill Nemitz, live in Bar Mills and can say with relief that all five kids have made it through college.

Her passion for fashion first emerged in fourth grade, when she begged her parents (successfully) for white go-go boots. (Think Nancy Sinatra.) She knew at an early age that those brown Girl Scout oxfords did not work with a blue tulle Easter dress, and has the scowling photo to prove it.



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