Reverie, by Hubert Denis Etcheverry, c. 1930. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY.

Fashion

Volume VIII, Number 4 | fall 2015

Miscellany

Southern women during the Civil War chewed on newspapers, believing an ingredient in the ink whitened their faces.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1911