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Summary: Fabulous, funny and real
Review: Despite the fact I am a generation younger than Ms. Beckerman, I loved the way she associates her clothes with significant experiences in her life. Isn't that how we all acquired our "lucky sweater" or "power suit"? Such a poignant touching tale with simple but expressive drawings, a quick read I open again and again.
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Summary: Sharing memories of what we wore....
Review: Do you have a clothing memory? I'd love to hear from you.
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Summary: Life, as a fashion statement
Review: Everybody knows that a song on the radio or a certain scent can evoke powerful memories. In a similar way, the author of this book discovered that reflecting on her fashion choices over the years often brought to mind people and events that had been important to her, and vice versa. Ms. Beckerman's story is by turns comical and poignant. Her line drawings are cannily evocative. This is a quick read that will leave an impression long afterward.
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Summary: Heartache and Headbands
Review: I love this book! What woman does not associate what she wore with the special moments in her life.Every woman should own this book!
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Summary: Heartache and Headbands
Review: I love this book! What woman does not associate what she wore with the special moments in her life. Every woman should own this book!
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Summary: Thank you for the Memories!
Review: I loved it. Ilene's wry illustrations and warm recollections really hit home with me. So much of our memories have an affiliation with an outfit...this is a celebration of being a woman.
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Summary: A poignant and witty book with great style!
Review: I really love this book and have given it to my closest women friends. Like the author, I associate experiences with the clothes that I wore, and I found her stories and drawings both touching and amusing. It also triggers a lot of fond memories. Highly recommended!
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Summary: all KINDS of clothing memories
Review: i remember my sisters and i all wearing matching rompers my grandmother brought us back from florida: they had smocking around the chest and them blossomed into bloomers and elastic around the legs. they all tied on the shoulders and we took delight in untying each others' "straps"--all for nought, really, as they were so hugging against our flat chests, they would never have fallen down anyway. we coupled these with hats that had built-in sunglasses: the hats went over our heads and two round "sunglass circles" fell neatly over our eyes. allthree of us wanted to wear that outfit every day during the summer of '69.
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Summary: all KINDS of clothing memories
Review: i remember my sisters and i all wearing matching rompers my grandmother brought us back from florida: they had smocking around the chest and them blossomed into bloomers and elastic around the legs. they all tied on the shoulders and we took delight in untying each others' "straps"--all for nought, really, as they were so hugging against our flat chests, they would never have fallen down anyway. we coupled these with hats that had built-in sunglasses: the hats went over our heads and two round "sunglass circles" fell neatly over our eyes. allthree of us wanted to wear that outfit every day during the summer of '69.
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Summary: A simple yet surprisingly poignant and moving story.
Review: Love, Loss and What I Wore is a very unique and moving little gem of a book. Basically it's the story of Ms. Beckermans life from young childhood to mature adulthood told through short yet extremely moving snippets of text and hand drawn pictures of the outfit she wore at critical junctures of her life. The book works because it is open, honest sympathetic yet ordinary enough to relate to. The drawings of outfits are one the whole simple and colorful and have an air of distracted affection about them. They relate and interact well with the text. But what sets them apart--and this is a critical element of why the book works so well--is they not only relate to the story but, in any reader, will evoke strong memories of time's and places out of our own lives. Rather than detracting from the book, this flood of memories in fact lend additional dramatic impact to the reading experience. I have given this as a gift to several women I know and it has been a huge hit with every single one of them. I keep a couple of copies on hand for those time I need a gift and am too short of time and/or ideas to get anything else. This habit has stood me in good stead for quite a while now! In the end, this stands as a classic case of synergy if ever I came across one. The story by itself would seem pathetically simplistic. The drawings by themselves are nothing to rave about. Taken together, something magical happens, and the result is a whole whose sum is far, far greater then the sum of its parts-a classic case of simple genius.
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