Elizabeth Kendall (2)
Auteur de The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s
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Elizabeth Kendall is author of Autobiography of a Wardrobe (2008); American Daughter (2010); The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s (1990); and Where She Danced (1979). She is a tenured associate professor of Literary Studies at The New School. She has written for The New Yorker, afficher plus Vogue, Ballet News, Dance Magazine, The New York Times, Elle, The New Republic and other journals. afficher moins
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Autobiography of a Wardrobe par Elizabeth Kendall
This was my bathtub book for months. Then just days ago I couldn't put it down.
Everyday we make a wardrobe decision when we put selected items on our bodies. We also spend a considerable amount of time selecting, or deselecting clothes. I picked this up to use as a template for creating my own clothes diary...those great dresses of the early fifties we wore to dances, my dress for success wardrobe of suits, now in my 70s wondering how to look dignified without looking my grandmothers.
I read this book in one sitting. I am not a clothes horse or "into" fashion but Elizabeth Kendall has written an intimate examination of a "ficitonal" woman's life from the point of view of her clothes and it is quite exceptional. At first we are too uneducated to understand the voice of the clothes but we learn to accept it and then we become fascinated. This book gives voice to the everyday clothing choices we make and how they reflect our feelings at the moment.
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- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 186
- Popularité
- #116,758
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 25