“This was a time when the true signs of war were the lavish plumage of the women; Fifth Avenue dress shops and the finer restaurants were filled with these vanguards of war. Look at the jewels, the rare pelts, the gaudy birds on elaborate hair-dress and know that war was here; already the women had inherited the earth.” From Dawn Powell’s A Time To Be Born. Via Rachel Syme for The New Yorker.
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“This was a time when the true signs of war were the lavish plumage of the women; Fifth Avenue dress shops and the finer restaurants were filled with these vanguards of war. Look at the jewels, the rare pelts, the gaudy birds on elaborate hair-dress and know that war was here; already the women had inherited the earth.”

From Dawn Powell’s A Time To Be Born. Via Rachel Syme for The New Yorker.

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    From Dawn Powell’s A Time To Be Born. Via Rachel Syme for The New Yorker.
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    Shes great, even if it looks like she has dead birds in her hair
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