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Love, Loss, and What I Wore

My Life in Fashion

by Ilene Beckerman

ISBN: 1565121112
ISBN-13: 9781565121119
Format: Hardcover

Summary

A woman's life seen through what she wore at all the important events.

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"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."    -- Ilene Beckerman

   -- New York Times

"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."    -- Ellen Feldman

   -- New York Times Book Review

"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."

   -- New Yorker

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Workman Pub Co
Published date: 1995
Size: 6 x 7.5 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds

Publisher's Notes

Ilene Beckerman has found a way to articulate something all women know: that our memories are often tied to our favorite clothes. In this original and eloquent book, Gingy, as Ilene is called, tells the story of her life through the clothes she wore. From her Brownie uniform to her Diane Von Furstenberg wrap dress, Gingy offers a closet full of memories. She remembers her prom dresses, her wedding dresses, and her starting-over-her-new-life dresses. Gingy is Everywoman. She's a wise old friend who's survived divorce, the death of a child, the quirks of friends and family, crushes and heartbreak and bursts of joy and happiness. Like all of us, she likes to look nice while she's pursuing happiness. In Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Gingy invites us to reflect on our own lives and remember what we wore.

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