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Rosie the Riveter

Darn It!: Recycling Frugality

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 03.08.2009 | Style

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Elizabeth Gregory

This is new territory for us grownng up in the age of disposability and more, more, more. But it's familiar ground to the old folks, who made it through the Depression and WW2 rationing.

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Shirt of Change

Michael DeJong | Posted 03.04.2009 | Style

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Michael DeJong

Obama's brilliant photo of him in a crisp white shirt sans jacket will come to symbolize a new presidential power.

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Taking Back Rosie the Riveter

Deborah Stokol | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Symbolism, Women, 2008 Election, Rosie the Riveter, Sarah Palin, 2008 Campaign, Alaska, Sarah Palin Reaction, John McCain, Home News
Deborah Stokol

Even if Sarah Palin was an unassailable paragon (and she isn't), I would still find it inappropriate to see her on a Rosie the Riveter poster because to change it is to adulterate it.

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