13 Mom Dates For Mother's Day


Updated 05/02/12 2:02 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

May 13 — that's next Sunday — is Mother's Day. If you're lucky enough to be spending the day with your mom, why not think outside the brunch box? I came up with 13 mother-daughter activities, or what I like to call "mom dates," you can organize for Mother's Day. Whether it's high tea or taking advantage of unexpected things your community has to offer, here are some imaginative ways to spend the day with your mom.

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Vintage Wedding Ads Make Your Housewife Dreams Come True


Updated 05/02/12 1:05 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Wedding season is all around us, and we share plenty of tips here on TrèsSugar for how to be a modern bride and bridesmaid. But sometimes we like to take a look back at what it was like to walk down the aisle back in the day. Looking through these vintage wedding ads, I gather that the best way to secure a husband and have the wedding of your dreams involved a lot of soap, silverware, and toasters. Check out these retro ads now, and see how the advertisers of the Mad Men era caught the attention of brides and brides-to-be!

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You Can Now Read the Diary of President Obama's Ex-Girlfriend


Updated 05/02/12 11:25 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

When he was 22, living in New York City, and right out of college, Barack Obama dated Genevieve Cook. The relationship was significant to warrant mention in his memoir Dreams of My Father, but now we can read Genevieve's perspective in Vanity Fair. The magazine's piece, focusing on the now president's first serious relationship, is an adaptation of a new Obama biography by David Maraniss and includes love letters from Barack sent to another girlfriend, Alex McNear, and portions of Genevieve's very detailed diary. The realities of an everyday relationship are discussed, including fights, chores, and sex life.

Genevieve's diary provides details about what it was like to be in a relationship with Barack at the time. On Sundays, he would drink coffee, lounge around, and do the New York Times crossword. She described the scene in her diary:

I open the door, that Barack keeps closed, to his room, and enter into a warm, private space pervaded by a mixture of smells that so strongly speak of his presence, his liveliness, his habits — running sweat, Brut spray deodorant, smoking, eating raisins, sleeping, breathing.

In another entry, she describes her doubts:

The sexual warmth is definitely there — but the rest of it has sharp edges and I’m finding it all unsettling and finding myself wanting to withdraw from it all. I have to admit that I am feeling anger at him for some reason, multi-stranded reasons. His warmth can be deceptive. Tho he speaks sweet words and can be open and trusting, there is also that coolness — and I begin to have an inkling of some things about him that could get to me.

For his part, here's how Barack described the relationship in his autobiography, "You know how you can fall into your own private world? Just two people, hidden and warm. Your own language. Your own customs. That’s how it was." Can you relate to the young love?

Man Candy: Hotter Now or Then?


Updated 05/02/12 10:05 AM · Posted by TresSugar · 23 comments

Happy birthday, David Beckham! The steamy soccer player, underwear model, and family man turns 37 today! Some celebrity men — like David, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and McSteamy aka Patrick Dempsey — age like a fine wine, while others not so much. We've rounded up retro and new shots of some of Hollywood's hottest who have been in the spotlight for anywhere from a decade to several, to see how they've gone from boy wonder to mature man candy. So weigh in now: are these celebs hotter now or hotter then?

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When Flight Attendants Glammed It Up


Updated 05/02/12 12:11 PM · Posted by TresSugar · 7 comments

Exactly 60 years ago today (May 2, 1952), the de Havilland DH 106 Comet was officially introduced as the world's first production commercial jet airliner with its inaugural flight from London to Johannesburg. Soon after that landmark flight came the flight attendants of the '60s, who have had a resurgence in popularity thanks to last year's big drama Pam Am. Some consider this era the glory years of air travel, when service was still good and passengers weren't herded like cattle. Some would also call it a time when stewardesses (the retro name for flight attendant) were treated as sex objects who were supposed to wait on you hand and foot and possibly hint at . . . other services. For a time, there was even a policy that only unmarried women could fill the job. Let's take a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly in this flight attendant flashback.

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Sugar Bride Guide: Sentimental Songs


Updated 05/02/12 9:34 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Some of the toughest decisions you have to make when planning a wedding revolve around the music. First, you have to decide if you're going with a band or a DJ; then you have to choose the songs for the guests' arrival, the reception, and the cocktail hour; and most importantly, you have to pick the songs for the processional, recessional, grand entrance, first dance, father/daughter dance, mother/son dance, and exit. It can get overwhelming! So to help you out, we went to our fellow brides and brides-to-be at Sugar HQ to find out what songs they used or are planning to use on their big days. In this second post of our Sugar Bride Guide series — be sure to check out the first one with proposal stories — we get the inside scoop from Sugar brides on what songs they chose and why they are so special to them.

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