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player ready...A black dress becomes what you make of it in your own life story. You are the heroine here.
There is no other way to put it. It’s that simple.
Who talks about the little green dress, the little mauve dress, the little pink dress?
A women who has defined herself and her sense of style knows that it’s what she brings to the dress that counts.
Through photographs, essays and modern-day accounts, the little black dress has become a metaphor for renewal, arrival, identity and security.
The most recent literary entry, “The Little Black Dress,” by Amy Holman Edelman (Simon & Schuster Editions, $30), explores the historical and sociological significance of the black dress, dating from its modern conception by Coco Chanel in 1926. Photographs chronicle fashion and women, including recent little-black-dress-wearers such as Elizabeth Hurley, Tina Turner and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Says Edelman, who owns a half-dozen black dresses: “The little black dress lets women say that they are more important than what they’re wearing. You notice the person before you notice the dress.”
The black dress is not always little, of course. You don’t have to be little to wear it. It is short and long; it is sleeved and sleeveless; it is a top with a skirt; it is full and fitted. Above all, it is simple and simply adorned. Remember, you are the jewel.
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