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June 08, 2007
A passion for plastic

I'll never forget the wistful look on the elderly woman's face as she
remembered her fashionable past as a young woman in New York City.

She'd stack bakelite bangles up each arm to the elbow as she readied for a night on the town, then finished her look with a sheer, long-sleeve blouse.
Her husband, she confided, always threatened to leave her home if she wouldn't remove a few.

Of course - stylish lady that she was - she never did.

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Posted by Andrea Nemitz at 12:18 PM
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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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