Living the Good Life, Take 2
After more than 30 years in the news industry, Pam Sander has transferred the inquisitive, need-to-know skills and love for details to the vintage and antique resell business. Her greatest love in journalism was storytelling — learning about people and sharing their stories with others. Her kids have always said she’s nosy. She prefers the words curious and interested. With the creation of LaMonaGirl Shops on eBay, Poshmark, Etsy and Mercari, she is selling her great finds — sometimes vintage, sometimes just in demand. In this blog space, she tells the stories behind some of the finds. She may be new to the vintage business, but she’s not new to research, reporting and getting out accurate information.
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Liz Claiborne was a working woman who championed the middle-class woman
Claiborne set out to reach women entering the job market en mass — not the executive roles (women hadn’t gotten there yet), but the cubicle dwellers, the saleswomen, and yes, the journalists.
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Herbert Kasper helped launch my journalism career
Kasper was the first suit I ever purchased, in 1987, as a young journalist heading to a week-long conference at the prestigious Poynter Institute in Tampa.
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Meet Charleston Audrey Hepburn, via my first estate sale
Audrey is the name I gave the tiny woman whose estate sale clothes reminded me of actress Audrey Hepburn.
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Milliner Fred heeded the call for women then for Leslie Fay
In 1942, milliner Fred Pomerantz was hired by the U.S. government to make uniforms for women during World War II.
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Irene Kasmer’s hip-huggers vision honored women’s rights
Irene was 21 when she left Czechoslovakia for an escape aboard the Queen Mary — family had died in the Holocaust and she was determined to get to the land of the free.
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NJ purse company empowered women
Two of the founders, Ed and Ludwig Kaphan, came to America in 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. They arrived with little money but a lot of determination and had their handbag business up and running in New Jersey within several years.
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