“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.
Source: newyorker.com
