The best, most elegant lanyards are made by Alexander in Sportsman's Paradise, Louisiana. Alexander's Outdoors offers a wide variety of lanyard styles and many categories of survival tools as well.

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My husband describes the haircut he gives me as "the right cut for a woman of substance". Copyright M-J de Mesterton, Elegant Survival, 2011

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Line-drying your clothes in the sun is one of life's low-cost luxuries. Here on the internet at my main website, Elegant Survival, I have been promoting outdoor line-drying since 2006.

More Royal Wedding Comments

My husband, who attended the wedding of Prince Charles and has played polo with him, just told me, without having viewed today's wedding himself, that the car Prince William was driving with his new bride is probably Father-of-the-Groom's twenty-year old Aston Martin DB6. Upon looking up the car model, I see that it is a different Aston Martin, the Volante,which could be an old family model as well. No matter what, the car that the Royal Couple were in after their nuptials (pronounced "nup-shals" NOT "nupshoo-als") is a dignified convertible of timeless style.

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Barnara Walters is broadcasting from London weariing a white blazer in April. Tut, tut. Not only is it too early in the year to do so, BUT, she is not in the wedding party! Can't we leave white for the bride on her special day? Did Kelly Riipa really need to call attention to herself on her TV show with Regis this morning--by wearing a wedding gown and veil? And the very coarse show, The View, is going to have their own "Wedding of Kate and William" parody. Clowns....

~~M-J

Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, Adolphe Menjou and Xavier Cugat star in the charming 1942 romantic comedy, You Were Never Lovelier

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor is today's lyric opera Live from the Met.

in many regions, it is time to plant radishes, which are considered a cool-weather crop.

Placido Domingo in the Last Act of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra: VIDEO

TODAY, LIVE from the METROPOLITAN OPERA, NEW YORK CITY:

another beautiful lyric opera by Giuseppe Verdi:

Saturday, February 5th Live from the Met: Simon Boccanegra, by Giuseppe Verdi Starring Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Barbara Frittoli, Ramón Vargas, and Ferruccio Furlanetto.

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The terms "best-dressed" and "dapper" are being horribly misused. 

Edouard Manet