From "Stillmeadow Daybook" by Gladys Taber. First published in 1946.
"I really think it is a fine art to be a well-dressed woman. The ones in the fashion plates don't affect me much, for I can't imagine anyone with no mid-section at all, just a long neck and a pair of lovely long legs. Most women do have a different frame, even the shad-thin ones. And I am not proud of the way women follow the lead, like sheep after the bell-wether. Even Connie, who is an individualist in many ways, says she never did want to wear those skirts to the floor and found herself doing it. Currently she deplores the return to the ugly long-waisted packaged look but she expects to follow it although it won't, as the saying goes, "do anything" for her size nine, tiny-waisted shape. Ed Shenton says she looks like something out of the Renaissance and certainly her delicate coloring, and fine slim hands and oval face do suggest it. However, she must dress in the moment, although she advised me firmly, "Mama, you better hurry fast and buy all the clothes you need for the next three years because these new styles are just not for you."
