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History through fashion will be celebrated Friday at the Abilene Woman’s Club Foundation.  It’s an opportunity for the 93-year-old organization to highlight through the decades women’s achievements nationally as well as their contributions to cultural and civic advancements in Abilene.  One recent benchmark is the election of Dorothy Drones, the club’s first Black president.  The Historical Fashion Show luncheon, which is intended to mark the …

There was a time when Grace Byeitima, owner of Mbabazi House of Style, was interested in lawyering, not pattern layouts. But her mother forced her to learn about the latter. “I wanted to be a lawyer,” said Byeitima, who is from Kampala, Uganda. “My mother was a teacher in a vocational training institute, and she made me go where she …