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The sketches showed a beautiful woman with high and full up-do, and women rushed to emulate this with any manner of rats, pads and hair pieces.
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Dress shopping, shoe shopping, up-do appointments, mani-pedi's, the perfect make-up and accessories = $$$$$$.
Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine: Not Your Average Dress Store Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine 2011
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She has Ishmael put a big flower in her up-do. to go with her chandelier earrings.
"I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1) The Reliable Source 2010
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I wonder if a lot of women (I'm not referring to those who are unable to have long hair) cut their hair short because it gives the impression of an up-do without having to learn how to do it?
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
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April 9th, 2010 at 9: 27 am katy says: so, was sarah mcQUITTER doing her best imitation of a “serious” politician with her serious black suit with the serious pearls topped off with that serious hair up-do???
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She has Ishmael put a big flower in her up-do. to go with her chandelier earrings.
"I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1) The Reliable Source 2010
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This exaggerated up-do is kind of Bride of Frankenstein fierce.
Abe Gurko: Oscars Designer Challenge 2011 Abe Gurko 2011
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Unless, of course, they are cashmere tracksuits and then, well, I saw a woman in London dining hotspot Cecconi's the other evening in what I suppose might be marketed as an "evening tracksuit"—gray/green cashmere worn with open-toed heels, a blonde "up-do" and lots of diamonds.
The New Loungewear Goes Luxe Tina Gaudoin 2011
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This exaggerated up-do is kind of Bride of Frankenstein fierce.
Abe Gurko: Oscars Designer Challenge 2011 Abe Gurko 2011
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So while it's not short or shaved like a boy's, I do try to make it as feminine as possible with curls, height, soft bangs, etc as if it were the illusion of an up-do.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
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