Une femme has managed to procure a copy of Linda Grant's new book, the thoughtful dresser, which I believe is not yet available in the U.S. In fact, I have managed to procure two copies, which means that I can share one with one of you. What better excuse for a contest? To enter, write a comment about the Polyvore below. Tell a story or just share whatever thoughts come to mind by midnight Pacific Daylight Time on Sunday April 5. This time I'll do a random drawing from the entries and announce a winner next Monday.
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Love the shoe/boots! Tres Chic.
ReplyDeleteFun! I love this ensemble for pushing that leopard print with the purple booties ... daring, but still stylish.
ReplyDeleteRose was excited about her job interview in Paris. She knew her mother wouldn't approve of the lepoard skirt for such a serious occasion, but she was only 22 ! Mon Dieu! The newly minted college grad was happy to wear the purple suede booties procured during her study abroad in Berlin.Finally an outfit to wear them with. The comfy character-filled leather jacket and the graduation gifted handbag helped her feel calm and fearless. Rose walked into the old building with an excited breath, tossed her scarf around her neck and began her grown up life.
ReplyDelete(an homage to my girl who dresses well and will be searching for a job soon!)
The jacket is a little pricey! Love the boots, though and as far as the handbag, doesn't Target have something like that?
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun ensemble. Love the booties with the leopard print skirt. Tres chic!!
ReplyDeleteI'm just reading the book. It's excellent. I'm starting to look at clothes in a new light - more of an intellectual experience. The author has given the whole process of buying and wearing clothes a new depth and meaning.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...Did you order your two copies from the Book Depository? That's where I ordered mine from, only to receive an apologetic email telling me they'd sold out!
ReplyDeleteCeline, nee Darla Sue from Lake Charles, was untroubled by her whirlwind romance with Jean-Cristophe.
ReplyDeleteEven though he was nearly 62, and she 31, Celine was genuinely fond, or fondly genuine... qui sais? They met in January aboard the Air France flight between DC and Paris, and married on March 30, in the city hall of the 8th arr.
J-C's lawyer was efficient, his doctor optimistic, and his ex-wife in Buenos Aires with a polo player.
Their witnesses: his firstborn, the gray-haired. reticent Helene, and the lawyer, Maitre Henri.
She clicked out of the hall in purple booties. Before changing into a red sequined cocktail dress for their celebration dinner, she changed the message on J-C's voice mail: "Vous avez rejoint la boite vocal de Celine et Jean-Christophe..."
He kissed her neck.
Tomorrow she would remember to erase several numbers on her cell phone: her old manicurist, her former employer, and Lonnie. who somehow still thought of himself as her husband.
Glancing at her skirt, she remembered the old adage, "Leopards don't change their spots". Or do they?
She'd had such a strange dream. A cute Englishman had whisked her out from her Parisian apartment, into a strange blue box and time-travelled back to the 80s. They wore such strange clothes back then; she’d felt totally out of place.
ReplyDeleteShe was very glad to be living in 2009, where she could whip on a brown leather bomber jacket, leopard print skirt, purple scarf and purple booties and feel completely at home.
I can't write a story! But I do love the bomber.
ReplyDeleteJoan - actually I ordered last summer from amazon uk.
ReplyDeleteI'm also reading the book, but to be honest I'm a bit disappointed with it, as I'm finding it to be a rather long journalistic version of her blog in which I participated quite frequently. I don't think I've learned anything new about her opinions that we haven't already read on the blog.
ReplyDeleteHowever, it's a pleasant read.
As she pulled them from the plastic tub, Genevieve was thankful her new killer shoes slipped on with such ease. As she bent over to put them on, her purse dropped to the floor with a thud. She sighed. Picking it up as she stood up with a graceful scooping motion, she threw her hair back, and fluffing her scarf, she threw one end of it over her shoulder. As her scarf flew, she demurely glanced back at her past before sashaying down the concourse with just a hint of a smirk betraying her thoughts on the right corner of her lips.
ReplyDeleteShe sat at a cafe feeling very self conscious. She looked the part but somehow did not feel it. Her cafe au lait arrived, but she did not know why she had ordered it. All she really felt like doing was having a lie down and a pillow over her head. About to get up she secured her scarf, uncrossed her legs, her purple ankle boots brushing against one another, at the same time she caressed the lush leopard print fabric of her skirt. She stood up to walk home and their eyes met. He was alone. He looked a little scruffy yet appealingly, devastatingly handsome. She pictured him in a vest matching her skirt. Silly thought she cursed herself, but a cute thought all the same. She walked over to him, her heart beating in her ears. She paused. Could she? Would she? Yes. If the most outrageous thing she had ever done was team a leather jacket with leopard print then surely this would be something she could brag to her grand-daughters about! Yes, she would do it. She would pick up that handsome puppy and take him home with her. And she did!
ReplyDeleteThis was her opportunity to throw caution to the wind. Finally, at age 56 she was comfortable in her own skin and dressing the part. All the kids were grown and it was time to reinvent herself. The new wedding planning business was booming and this was the professional look that screamed I have arrived -- and she had!
ReplyDeleteThe purple suede booties will ruin on the wet sidewalks during spring rains. I would never wear them on a rainy day.
ReplyDeleteSusan knew when she moved to Paris that she had found the perfect ensemble for her first day at work! She would never be invisible again!
ReplyDeleteThis outfit says, "Watch out world! Here I come! I just paid the last of my kid's college tuition bills and now it is all about me!"
ReplyDeleteHmm, would love to read the book
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