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Style for the Ages
While looking through your November 2011 issue, I saw the story, “All Dressed Up.” It was interesting to see the different styles of the five women you label “fashionistas.” That said, I noticed that your fashionistas were all 45 years old or younger. By focusing your story on these young women, lovely as they are, you’ve overlooked the many fashionistas of the Main Line who are over 50.
My fiancée is a case in point. She’s known to all her friends as “the chief of the fashion police”—a beautiful woman in her early 50s who is as stylish and “turned out” as those you featured. She has a sense of style that’s been nurtured and developed over the years. In my opinion, and that of our many friends, she is as much a “fashionista”—if not more—than the five women in your story.
Michael Medway
Philadelphia
Lost Histories
Mark Dixon’s November 2011 Retrospect column was truly eye-opening. It’s so challenging to get to the stories of the people who made the Main Line estates possible. Higher-up servants in a large house may be known because of oral histories or family stories. But the countless laborers Dixon documents are invisible.
The story really is shocking. I had no idea that the Whitehall became a tenement, or anything about Fritz Court.
Jeff Groff, Director of Public Programs
Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Winterthur, Del.
State Pride
It was with great amusement that I read Hobart Rowland’s End of the Line article in the November 2011 issue titled “(Not) Feeling Minnesota.” As a former travel agent, I’ve been to the Philadelphia area many times, reveling in its pleasing combination of comparatively “ancient” history and modern excitement. But I also know that, if you gave Minnesota a chance, you’d like it here, too.
Yes, we have a bit more winter than you folks do. But our way of life breeds character and a sort of “we can handle it” attitude. Of course, we do have three other seasons, each with their own appeal. And with summer a more limited commodity, we make the most of the warm months by using our many lakes and rivers. Fall is my personal favorite, with milder temps, the unforgettable smell of leaves and foliage preparing for winter, and the colors of our forests.
I contend that people are great all over the globe if given a chance to prove it. That in mind, I invite you to visit us any time of year, and let us prove to you why Minnesota is more than worth a visit. Whether we can convince you to move here is another story, but I suspect that you’ll like us a lot more than you thought you would. With 28 years in the travel and hospitality business, I’ve heard enough feedback to feel secure in my boast.
And when you come, can you pick up Donovan McNabb and take him back to Philly? He’s not working out here.
Terry Sveine, C.V.B. Manager
New Ulm, Minn.
