Vanilla Blush was set up by 33-year-old Nicola Dames after she had major surgery in 2006.

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Beyond these grand dames of footwear retailing, New York is full of wonderful shoe stores.

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The substance is pure pulp--crooked cops, greedy mobsters, seductive dames, shiny cars--but the style is delicately ironic.

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Other Dames complained of being stepped on, kneed, tripped and grabbed by Bombers.

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La Grenouille , sole survivor of the French grandes dames that once ruled the city's restaurant scene, continues to delight.

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Ms Dames said that donations were already coming in which would help Vanilla Blush get its models over to the catwalks of America.

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The JW Marriott on Copacabana beach is one of the newer, more modern and sophisticated hotels among a sea of aging grand dames in the area.

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And then there are all those sirs, ladies and dames.

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Sally Field in classic red Valentino, Jane Fonda in bright yellow Versace and Emmanuelle Riva in a teal gown that recalled society grande dames all looked regal in their fashion choices.

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This is the address for fashion insiders seeking unique pieces with serious cachet, where well-coiffed grand dames drop off their unwanted pieces for sale and stylists seek out clothes for glossy magazine fashion shoots.

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Going into their bout with the Bombers, the Dames probably should have taken it as an ominous sign that their opponent was named for the rowdy squad in "Kansas City Bomber, " a 1972 skating film starring Raquel Welch.

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