Obsessed by Dress
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Compiler: Toby TobiasIllustrator: Chesley McLaren
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-10-19
ISBN: 0807006068
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Beacon Press
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Book Review: Pure Pleasure
Summary: 5 Stars
This artfully arranged collection is sure to interest anyone who loves either clothes or writing. Although you might want to sit down and read it all at once--the "compiler," Tobi Tobias, has arranged her material with a magisterial hand, lending this little book a logical sweep and compelling coherence--this book is the ideal night table resident. It is also an ideal gift--whether all by itself, or tucked into something to wear. And just as with the astringent dance criticism Tobias writes for New York Magazine, reading this will make you smarter.
Summary of Obsessed by Dress
Are you obsessed by dress? Do you wonder if your obsession is a virtue or a vice? The flourish of a creative spirit or a sign of conformity to social norms? If so, you're in good company. Juxtaposing quotations from Virgil to Coco Chanel, Tobi Tobias reassures us that the obsession with clothes is as old as human history itself.Jane Austen, Mae West, Christian Dior, Virginia Woolf, Andy Warhol, and Mark Twain are among the many who have their say. Arranged with incomparable flair, their comments will help you answer the eternally vexing question, "What shall I wear?" "One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art." -Oscar Wilde
"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim." --Jane Austen
"Show me the clothes of a country and I can write its history." --Anatole France
"Only God helps the badly dressed." --Spanish proverb
"Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation." --Charles Dickens
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." --Henry David Thoreau
"Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat." --Sydney J. Harris
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." --Dorothy Parker
"There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking." --Virginia Woolf
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