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I had a strange feeling that morning when I got up early to reach the bridge that I knew the truck would have had to cross. I wanted to see Ira one last time. Deep inside I knew that this would have been our last encounter. There was so much …

End of IV century- Staatsbibliothek, Berlin The magistrate Rufo Probiano is represented with his “toga confabulata” or, in other words, folded diagonally across the chest. Underneath the toga it is possible to see the cassock. On both sides were two notaries wearing the Paenula, a cloak with a hole for …

With the era of the muslin strips gone, silk cut into strips began to be used as a tie. Here is an example of a diminutive bow tie sitting under an imposing collar.

(Tours 1729- Paris 1850) Balzac in his” Traitè de la vie élégante” goes back to Brummel. Brummel’s ideas on elegance had definitely taken hold. His arguments inspired magazines like “La moda” and Balzac recalls them insisting on the relation between clothing and architecture. Balzac borrows from Brummel, besides the idea …

We had been waiting for one hour, me and the soup, the latter was getting cold, and I was getting warmer. Finally I heard hurried steps. Giannetta entered the room lively and merry and…with a new toilette – the third in a month. I frowned. -Don’t tell me off- she …