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Synopsis
A woman's life seen through what she wore at all the important events.
| Size | | Height: | 7.5 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 12.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"My purpose was to say things to my children one doesn't have the time to say. And it was an ego thing. I wanted them to know I wasn't always their mother. I was a girl. I had best friends, we did stupid things together....Women have this thing in common, which is loving clothes. It doesn't matter your age or your size, we all go through the same thing. One of the things all women have control over is their closets. Every morning, every woman makes selections to create herself, recreate herself. And telling these stories is dormant in all of us, I think....Ilene Beckerman is of interest to no one, but the book is evocative to the reader with HER loss, her marriage, her dirndl skirt."
New York Times - Ilene Beckerman (01/24/1996)
"Fortunately for us, Ilene Beckerman has total recall of how she and the women in her life turned themselves out through the years...The book is a stylish little package. Ms. Beckerman's witty sketches suggest Edward Gorey covering the collections. Her reed-slim commentary will give minimalism a good name. But be forewarned. Appearance is deceiving. This small volume is more than a lighthearted romp through the last half-century of American fashion. It is a spare, unsentimental portrait of one woman's life that illuminates the experience of an entire generation of women."
New York Times Book Review - Ellen Feldman (01/07/1995)
"The lonely poignance of the illustrations makes this original and funny book also excruciatingly sad: never has the love of beautiful clothes seemed less frivolous."
Feldman
"If ever there's been a must-read book about the deeply non-frivolous role of fashion in our lives, this is it....Deceptively simple and artfully illustrated, it's actually a saga, yet short enough to be digested over aperitifs."
(07/13/2009)
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