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.

As bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.

—David Sedaris, 1997