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Why Dont You?' wasn't totally absurd to me, " Diana said later. "Of course, the columns had a certain absurdity that tickled people -- just to think that anyone would thin of writing anything so absurd. But it wasn't even writing. To me writing-- Edith Wharton, Henry James..Proust, for God's sake..is a think of beauty and sustainment. 'Why Don't You?' was a think of fashion and fantasy, on the wing.. It wasn't writing, it was just ideas. It was me, insistent on people using their imaginations, insisting on a certain idea of luxury. .Amanda Mackenzie Stuart
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In this instance, however, the answer was quite straightforward: "Men want women beautiful, romantic... birds of paradise instead of hurrying brown hens, " said Bazaar in October 1945. As families were reestablished, there was a move toward a celebratory fashion of fecundity, with closer-fitting waists and rounder hips.Amanda Mackenzie Stuart