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Mickey blue dress

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Friday, July 15, 2011

Kelly Cooney Cilella, of Los Angeles writes:

"The picture is of my mom (in blue) and her mother-in-law/my paternal Grandmother (in red & white). The photo was taken in Florida on a f…

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Rocking the head scarf, proper

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Monday, March 14, 2011

Loves me some Brett Michaels but the bandanna looks a lot better on Katherine Johnson's mom.
Johnson writes: "This is a photo of my mom in 1965. She made the bandana chic! These days o…

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Mommy and me: an 80's odyssey

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Thursday, November 18, 2010

Suleman Anaya writes:
"This is my beautiful mom, Lucy (short for Maria de la Luz), born 60 years ago in Mexico City. She was in law school when she met my dad, a physics student from Pak…

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When women rode bikes and everything was wonderful

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Leili Ratti writes: "I would like to submit my beautiful mom's picture. I have this framed in my living room and people always ask if that was me with black hair. I look just like her ex…

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I heart mom

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Forget the original skin homage to mom, Joshua Conkel took his mother loving to the next level. He sent in this photo of his brand new tattoo. It's inspired by this incredible pictur…

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Secrets of a Seamstress

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Mary Cotter submitted this photo of her lovely mom in the Bronx Botanical Garden: "Sometime in the mid-1940s posing for my Dad in a dress she most likely made. She was a seamstress an…

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NOT YOUR FATHER: Unless you're Mariska Hargitay

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Wednesday, June 23, 2010

HOLY MUSCLE BEACH MOLY. Sometimes we find old pictures of our moms posing suggestively with strange men. Sometimes those strange men beget cast-members of the Law and Order franc…

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Photo Album: Red hot mama

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Suzanne Jewell sent in a slew a photos of her mother, each one more color-soaked and eye-popping than the next. So I decided to post them all. Here's a little backstory courtesy of Su…

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A lesson in hat arrangements

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Margaret Ritchie writes: "My mom was a style icon in the truest sense! She modeled in New York City for a period of time in the late 50's and early 60's, before I was born. Our family has…

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The Picnic Picture

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Wednesday, May 19, 2010

This is Amanda Javorina's favorite picture of her mother. It was taken in the late 70's at a picnic while she was still a single lady. She writes: "My mom passed away in 1994 at age 37 an…

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On the disco round

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Monday, May 17, 2010

In 1979, Elizabeth Fowler's mom got dressed up, tucked her kids in and went out dancing in her hometown of Manila in the Philippines. Based on her awesome shiny pink suit, this is wha…

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Something Blue

—by My Mom, The Style Icon / Monday, May 10, 2010

My mom and dad, Nair and Anatole, on their wedding day. Photo taken at the reception at an officer's club in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 29, 1955. I still have the dress which my mo…

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