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We help a reader look for dupes of a $700 velvet holiday dress for girls from Bonpoint. Etsy, La Coqueta, and Pepa London are great places to shop for holiday dresses.

KELLY ADAMS

Article by Tony Morris: Renowned bloodstock writer Tony Morris with the 26th in his series celebrating 100 horses instrumental in shaping the Thoroughbred breed.

Join I was small for my age, awkward as a new-born calf, my tiny moon face partially hidden behind bottle bottom lenses set in a baby-blue cat’s eye frame (in 1964 the only other choice in girls’ glasses was baby-poop brown).  I peered out at the world; my prescription glasses corrected my near-sightedness (which my mom, like the wicked foster mother in Kipling’s “Baa Baa Black Sheep,” believed was the result of reading in bed), but did almost nothing for my total lack of depth perc...