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“Wonderfully original.... A highly relatable account of body
image, feminism, and fashion.”—Vogue“Belongs on every
nightstand.” —Vanity Fair “A great history of women in the
20th-century. . . . Amazing.” —Slate “Nutty and
delightful.”—The Boston Globe“Brilliant. . . . One turns
these pages with anticipation and pleasure.” —The New York
Sun“Powerful. . . . [It's] impossible not to remember your own
clothes-what you wore, and where, and when.” —The New York
Observer "This is a book to devour with great pleasure, as it
brings back our own reactions to youth's wardrobe: saddle shoe lust
and, for me, in Brooklyn rather than in the Midwest, a decade
earlier, bobby socks and penny loafers. But the passion is the same
in every period: no one has gotten at the intense importance of
these issues in the feminine bildungsroman. Kendall has given us
something wonderful."—Linda Nochlin, author of Bather, Bodies,
Beauty"A writer of deep and delicious gifts, Elizabeth Kendall
now gives us a subtle, original riff on the clothes we wear.
Clothes may not make the man or woman, but they certainly make this
book. It is at once whimsical and profound."—Catharine Stimpson,
University Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and
Science, New York University
内容简介
Saddle shoes. Camp shorts. Girdles. Bell-bottoms. Each plays a
significant role as we follow B., the wardrobe's owner, through her
buttoned-up Midwestern childhood to the freedom of miniskirts,
sundresses, and New York City. We watch as B. copes with the
untimely death of her mother, makes a go of glamorous magazine
work, and, after the inevitable false starts and fashion missteps,
finally comes into her own.Part memoir, part fashion and cultural
history of the last five decades, Autobiography of a Wardrobe is an
exploration of the clothes each generation has embraced and the
smallest details in which we are able to seek comfort and
meaning.
作者简介
Elizabeth Kendall is the author of Autobiography of a
Wardrobe, Where She Danced, The Runaway Bride, and American
Daughter, and her work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New
York Times, among other periodicals. In 2004-2005 she was a fellow
at the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library, and in 2006
she received a Fulbright grant to do research in St. Petersburg,
Russia. She lives in New York City.