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The clothes you wear are a metamorphosis. They change you from the outside in.
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I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.
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Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography.
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A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Linda Grant
Born:
February 15, 1951
(age 73)
Bio:
Linda Grant is an English novelist and journalist.
Known for:
The Clothes on Their Backs (2008)
Upstairs at the Party (2014)
We Had It So Good (2010)
When I Lived in Modern Times (2000)
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