Combining personal reminiscences with a cultural and fashion history of the past five decades, an offbeat portrait of one woman's life is narrated from her wardrobe's point of view, from the buttoned-up 1950s Midwest, through adolescence, to the rebellion of college in the 1960s and beyond. 20,000 first printing.
Part memoir, part fashion and cultural history, Autobiography of a Wardrobe is an exploration of the clothes we embrace and the smallest details in which we seek comfort and meaning.
Saddle shoes. Camp shorts. Girdles. Bellbottoms. Here they all have their say as we follow the wardrobe's owner, B., from her buttoned-up Midwestern childhood to miniskirts and sundresses. We watch as B. copes with the untimely death of her mother, makes a go of glamorous magazine work in New York, and, after the inevitable false starts and fashion missteps, finally comes into her own. Here is the wholly unique story of one woman's lifeas told by her wardrobe.
