Mother’s Party Dress and the Batman Cape

Mother’s Party Dress and the Batman Cape

My mother was never much of a clotheshorse. She had a serviceable wardrobe and, aside from the lovely purple dress she sewed for herself sometime in the 1950s, she eschewed anything too fancy. If anyone was fashion-forward it was my father. He always had suits in the...
The Tobacco-Colored Suit

The Tobacco-Colored Suit

I have a closet dedicated to all the clothes I never wear: tailored suits with calf-length skirts, jackets with peplums and padded shoulders, Diane-Von-Furstenberg-look wrap dresses (which are still nice, I just have no occasion to wear them). Some are too snug now,...