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Shocked, my mother, Schiaparelli, and me, Patricia Volk

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Shocked, my mother, Schiaparelli, and me, Patricia Volk
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Shocked
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
800039438
Responsibility statement
Patricia Volk
Sub title
my mother, Schiaparelli, and me
Summary
From the acclaimed author of Stuffed: an intimate, richly illustrated memoir that juxtaposes two fascinating lives -- the iconoclastic designer Elsa Schiaparelli and the author's own mother, Audrey Morgen Volk, an upper-middle-class New Yorker -- to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman
Table Of Contents
Mirrors -- "The From Above" -- A Ring and a Mink -- Something in Common -- Gambling -- Manner of Dress -- The Womanly Arts -- Friendship -- Lingerie -- Gainful Employment -- The Vicissitudes of Beauty -- Improving the Mind -- Sex -- Choosing a Husband -- Being a Mother -- Superstition -- The Bogolometz -- Reckoning -- Through the Looking Glass -- Reflection
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