We were just in Rhode Island and did the Cliff Walk tour which was nice. I keep hearing nice things about this hotel so we''ll have to keep it in mind for our next visit.
Thanks for the article. Although I'd say that Rose Bertin is who brought fashion into pop culture serving as the dressmaker for Marie Antoinette. If you study how dresses came into "fashion" and were commissioned by the Queen during that era, you will then understand how Paris became the powerhouse and center of the modern day fashion industry. Charles Worth, continued in his own right what was already in motion a hundred years earlier.