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With the arrival of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), we finally have a major sitcom heroine whom we definitely don’t want to dress like. Kimmy Schmidt wears bright pinks, purples, and yellows. She looks, one character observes, like the wrapping of a Wendy’s old-fashioned hamburger. Albeit in a cute way. Sort of. She is a thirty-year-old woman who wears the clothes of a fifteen-year-old girl, and not a fifteen-year-old girl on television — there is a teenage character on Unbreakable, a Manhattan kid who wears black and flannel — but a…

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