Stories

1. Office Space

   

   Decking out your desk will have you whistlin’ while you work. Once you craft a couple of adorable accordion files, a matching magazine holder, some binder clips, and a magnetic strip, you won’t mind the daily grind.

2. A Line of One's Own

   

   I hate not having a laundry machine,” says Alison Lewis, lamenting the drawbacks of New York City living. “Especially since I buy so much vintage and it’s so smelly! My closet was open the other day, and my boyfriend was like, ‘It smells like old ladies in here, what is it?’” she adds, laughing. The 26-year-old designer’s love for fashions past is no surprise, since the simple, elegant dresses, skirts, and blouses of her new line, called Lewis, exude the classiness of days gone by.

3. Home Sweet Home EC

   

   Everyone has an idea about what home ec entails. Maybe yours includes learning to make pancakes from Bisquick in a junior-high classroom or sewing a pillow only your mother could love. But even that’s better than the vision most people conjure up: a ’50s panorama of aproned and full-skirted Stepford-wives-in-training, obediently tending to their mixing bowls before a row of vintage ovens.

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