Nicky's Rag Tales

The Metropolitan Museum in New York is the place to visit between May 5-August 15 should you be lucky enough. ‘ American Women: Fashionising a National Identity’ is the title of a new exhibition.

Based on a sumptuous collection of dressesfrom the Brooklyn Museum costume collection, which was transferred in January 2009. Some 80 examples of haute couture and de luxe fashion will be on show, many of which have not been seen by the public in more than three decades.Designers featured in the exhibition include Gabrielle Chanel, Madame Grès, Charles James, Jeanne Lanvin, Liberty & Company, Edward Molyneux, Paul Poiret, Elsa Schiaparelli, Valentina and Madeleine Vionnet.

Boater 189-1900

Gown 1890

1935-1940

This Weekend is Kentuky Derby time at Churchill Downs. The weather is Wet Wet Wet! and the style is plastic! Here are some ladies in protective mode…

And the winner was a horse called ‘Super Saver’ ( a message there somewhere?!)