Gail Sheehy discovers that fashion’s possibilities bloom, rather than wilt, with each passing decade
It was the crucial job interview of my twenties and I had nothing to wear. My dream, that summer of 1963, was to be hired by Eugenia Sheppard, the women’s features editor of the New York Herald Tribune and the nation’s top fashion cop. Two things I had been warned that Sheppard found unsightly: old people and pregnant women. I was young, but I was pregnant. Very.
I stayed up half the night before, sewing an orange-and-purple striped knockoff of a Marimekko tent dress. I remembered a pregnant Jacqueline Kennedy wearing something like it during the 1960 presidential campaign. That dress freed me to fake confidence. Sheppard even gave me a (backhanded?) compliment on my choice.
“Interesting colour combination.”
I got the job.
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