Sylvia Schwantes’s Reviews > The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter > Status Update

“And one is forced to wonder if there is something so threatening about women that periodically there needs to be a means of hobbling them—if that’s the deeper meaning, or if it’s more banal and straightforward, that it’s just the normal fashion cycle.” pg. 160

“ i could write my autobiography in clothes from birth to present” (18)