Obsessed By Dress

If you do not yet have a copy of this little book of dress quotations by Tobi Tobias, I'm not sure what you're waiting for. I mean, if you're waiting for a giant flaming hand in the sky pointing towards the nearest bookstore, that's one thing. If you just haven't gotten around to it, that's another. I suggest you remedy that by clicking on the cover image, the one there to your left.

(I have to say that I am fond of books of quotations in general; they're like tasting menus of ideas, or collages, or kaleidoscopes. I can spend hours with them. I think I would cheerfully read a book of quotes about the great highways of the world, or bottle tops, just for the faceted view ...)

Here is the quote that seemed apt to me today:

I should like my dress to be a poem about myself, my persona, the outward and visible presentation of my individuality. And that particular mode and fabric and manner which I should choose might not at all recommend itself to my next-door neighbour. Indeed, I hope it would not. For the loveliest and most human thing about humanity is the infinity of its types and modes of manifestation.

From "A Girl Graduate," Pall Mall Gazette, 1884, quoted in Obsessed By Dress.

Forgot to add -- no fewer than FIVE kind people took pictures of my dress at the conference yesterday, so I hope to have one to post here soon!

Comments

[vintagecrochetgirl]

Erin, your dress must have been really spectacular or you're really a celebrity! Which is it? Or are you a celeb who sews her own knock-out frocks?

[Erin]

I don't think it was either! I think it was because I begged for folks to do it. :-)

[Ms. Kat]

Can't wait to see the dress!