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Robert Pante: Dressing to Win
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10743 |
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LIFE
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1 / 1986 |
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Kevin Murphy
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The glamorous parade of high fashion and sparkling jewelry as quite unusual for a suburban neighborhood where early Saturday morning sights usually include dog walking, paper fetching, and kid ferrying. The normal outfit of the hour, a bathrobe or knockabout jeans, was supplanted by the latest designer clothes and offerings from Europe's fashion houses. An unknowing observer might have thought it was the very end of an all-night extravaganza, but it was, in fact, the beginning of a fun and exciting day of fashion talk led by Robert Pante, a master of personal presentation.
Nearly forty, apparently prosperous, young to middle aged men and women gathered at sponsors Nancy and Alan Ross's comfortable home to meet Pante and experience his day long seminar, "Dressing to Win: How to Have More Money, Romance, and Power." Each would pay $225 to be treated to a wide ranging, at times revolutionary, but always entertaining salon-seminar in which Pante, charismatic and immaculately dressed, explains how to dress for a fuller, more successful life.
Pante opens the day, by imploring, "Use me! Don't hold back. You are chintzy and tacky with yourself--stop it right now, it took courage to come here to find out about your mistakes." From there he begins a fashion fire-and-brimstone discussion of three topics: Sabotaging yourself and How Not To Do It; Winner's Circle; and Elegance and Success.
The size of the group is kept fairly small to insure plenty of personal attention and to maintain a familiar atmosphere. Participants are required to wear clothes they consider "casually smart" to the salon-seminar. Each person is required to bring two complete
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