" . . . she was having a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that once one had got them they took one in hand and gave one no peace until they had been everywhere and seen by everyone. You didn't take your clothes to parties, they took you. It was quite a mistake to think that a woman, a really well-dressed woman, wore out her clothes; it was the clothes that wore our the woman -- dragging her about at all hours of the day and night. No wonder men stayed young longer." -- Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April
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I have read your blog for many years now .It is interesting to get book tips and comments from the other side of the "pond".
Posted by: mag46 | Saturday, July 27, 2019 at 07:18 AM