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/\ i dont fully understand, this but i know it can't be good
“You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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"If you dream about Tory Burch flats, and follow the lives of the true NY socialites, be sure to pick up A Privileged Life: Celebrating Wasp Style,
$26.40. Written by design expert, Susanna Salk, this book is a tribute
to the designers and icons of the somewhat stuffy, somewhat fabulous
style of the Wasp.
For those perplexed, think of Charlotte York from Sex and the City.
Total Wasp. These ladies are prim and proper in both demeanor and
style, but they love a good party and scandal. Go figure. So put on
your cashmere cardi, pour a glass of bubbly and cozy up with designers
like Lilly Pulitzer and Waspy legends like C.Z. Guest. Toodles!"
...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
IN ?A Privileged Life: Celebrating WASP Style,? an unapologetically
reverent scrapbook of the WASP experience and her own memories, Susanna
Salk (a Milton Academy- and Vassar-educated magazine editor and
playwright) offers a personal explanation: ?After I watched the World
Trade Center collapse on television, I picked up an L. L. Bean catalog
and gazed at its pages completely shell-shocked,? she writes.
?Could there still be a world where people sat on sunny docks with initialized totes eating Pepperidge Farm Chessmen cookies??
She
longed for continuity and reassurance, she explains ? to ?wear safe,
sexless clothes,? and to sink back into the comforting preppy embrace
of no-frills cocktail hours, where there would be ?Triscuits with
Cracker Barrel cheese and warm white wine in plastic tumblers.?
She
is not afraid to make fun of WASP eccentricities, and even includes
what she calls the ?only WASP joke I know.? ?Q: What did the WASP go to
the hospital for? A: The food.? But she is serious about defending the
virtues of WASP values, and their contribution to American culture. At
last ? the white upper classes have a place at the table.
The pages gleam with iconic photographs of über-WASPs ? William F. Buckley,
George Plimpton, Jackie Onassis and members of Ms. Salk?s own family ?
and with people who, whatever their backgrounds, became emblems of WASP
mythology: Truman Capote, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Grace Kelly and ... Téa Leoni? ?There are WASP-y WASPs who are as complex and multifaceted as un-WASP-y ones,? she argues.
Nonetheless,
the whole point of WASPdom, in her vision, is its simplicity. One
caption, for a portrait of an unnamed family, says it all: ?Nothing
completes a WASP family portrait like boat sneakers and dachshunds.?
The
book?s cover bears a portrait of C. Z. Guest, taken by the elite set?s
photographer of choice, Slim Aarons. The book?s party is at J. Crew on
Fifth Avenue this Wednesday. Attendance is by invitation only. If you
have yet to receive yours, it?s printed, as is proper, on a monogrammed
bordered correspondence card, in cursive. The dress code is ?country
club chic optional.? Gin cocktails and tea sandwiches will be served.
...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Not a Sex and the City expert, but wasn't Charlotte supposed to be a JAP not a WASP? [*-)]
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No Faust--Charlotte married a Jewish guy at some point during the show and converted.....(i watched many re-runs while marooned in a small south indian town...)
You make an interesting point though--would she dress any different if she was a JAP?
...I mean the ephemeral, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Not a Sex and the City expert, but wasn't Charlotte supposed to be a JAP not a WASP? [*-)]
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No Faust--Charlotte married a Jewish guy at some point during the show and converted.....(i watched many re-runs while marooned in a small south indian town...)
You make an interesting point though--would she dress any different if she was a JAP?
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Aahh, Ok - I remember something Jewish or other... No, she probably wouldn't dress differently.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde
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