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Posted by camilla on January 9, 2011 - 19:39
from the ABC set Everyone In America

Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Guerlain
Leslie Caron
in Gigi
Audrey Hepburn
at breakfast
Grace
in Philadelphia
Monroe
in Gentlemen
singing of "rocks"
Colette writing "Claudine"
and hiding her husband
from the Nazis
all through the war
Our clothes have lost their bones
and their frills
and peplums
their satin ,and buttons, and hats
their shoulders
and veils
their diamonte
and somehow
so have our souls

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Comments

Highhat | January 9, 2011 - 20:36

Wow we need to be straightened out don't we? Nice piece
;)Pia

insertponceyfre... | January 9, 2011 - 21:58

I bet it's much easier to get dressed in the mornings now though!

I really enjoyed this poem camilla

seashore | January 10, 2011 - 08:22

I enjoyed this too!

camilla | January 10, 2011 - 08:35

One of my favourite stories ever is by Isak Dinesan and its from Gothic Tales. I think it is called the Old Chevalier. In it "Woman" is a concept veiled in mystery as well as many layers of clothing. "Woman" is given up for liberation. The description of the sensuality of it all is so rich and the writing full of those " I have to read it again its so good". Its also very wry and witty. Colette wrote Gigi so one can imagine the sort of world we are talking about.I watched Gigi the other day. As well as the aspects of women having to survive there was charm. People were charming to each other. We may have gained being fully human and lost charm along the way.

Highhat | January 10, 2011 - 11:51

Yes some of the old virtues are charming ;)Isak Dinesen was a pseudonym for Karen Blixen and Gothic Tales is superior. I read them over and over again. She was fantastic. She has written many more.

camilla | January 10, 2011 - 15:42

yes there is more to her than " I had a farm in Africa". Colettes Claudine books rock.

Highhat | January 10, 2011 - 17:45

Must look into Colette

Cavalcaderl | January 14, 2011 - 23:17

new camilla
Well deserved cherry
Enjoyed it all very clever
indeed I love the Gigi Film
"Maurice Chevalier".Thank heavens
for little girls.
julie xx