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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Growing Up in Style is a series about the connection between fashion and local life in America, past and present. To listen to Andrea Lee read this profile, click the play button below: WHY do you have so many little floral prints that you never wear?” demands my daughter, rifling through a rarely visited corner of my closets. Upstairs in our family house in Turin, Italy, she is as usual ransacking my wardrobe for vintage clothes an Alaïa leather skirt, a Tom Ford for Gucci velvet jacket that she will cajole from me for extended loans. “Stuff like this doesn’t look good on you,” she adds with daughterly bluntness, holding up a blouse from the Italian company Frau Lau, with a minuscule Liberty design of pale-blue blossoms. “Not your style at all.” ....