[Vwoolf] woolf sighting

Carolyn Byrd cbyrdtexas at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 10:51:58 EST 2013


Source: "The Insider's Outsider" by Hilton Als, The New Yorker magazine,
September 21, 1998, page 99

"In a 1933 letter to Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf describes the
young designer's work on fashionable Ryder Street (his third address in
London in four years): 'I dined with Mary [Hutchinson] and she told me
about Charlie James the man milliner who was dropped by Heaven into her
hands...Her new dress is like that cold dish at Fornum's all white with
black.' The dress was 'symmetrical, diabolical and geometrically perfect'
she went on. 'So geometrical is Charlie James that if a stitch is crooked,
Vita, the whole dress is torn to shreds, which  Mary bears without
wincing.'"

Carolyn Byrd
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