Fashionably Late by Olivia Goldsmith

Author:Olivia Goldsmith [Goldsmith, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Married Women, Psychological Fiction, Women Fashion Designers, General, Romance, Adoption
ISBN: 9780061093890
Google: rr1H6nIMN2oC
Amazon: 0061093890
Publisher: HarperTorch
Published: 1994-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

I have shut my little sister infrom life and light (For a rose, for a ribbon, for a wreath across my hair) ţMARGARET WIDDEMER __

Lisa Saperstein looked into the full-length mirror as intently as if she were reading an eye chart. She was in the gray silk Thierry Mugler that she had overpaid for. But now that she looked most critically at herself, wasn’t the gray bad for her coloring? Arrayed on the bed was the linen three-piece outfit that Karen had given her. Lisa didn’t want to hurt Karen’s feelings, but she knew she’d look like a wrinkled mess in ten minutes if she wore that. Her other choice was a melon-colored silk broadcloth dress, a Bill Blass, that she had picked up cheap at Loehman’s. She’d been through all this a dozen times and had decided on the Mugler, but now, at the last minute, she wasn’t sure. She struggled out of the Mugler and put the Blass on.

Certainly, it looked the best, but it was also the most predictable.

And it showed a lot of leg. Too much? She wasn’t as young as she used to be. Her eyes rose from her hemline to her head. Oh, great! Now her hair was going flat. She knew she should have used more mousse.

Well, she had a hat that matched the Blass. She pulled at her hair.

She felt as if she was going crazy. Did she want to be a big-shouldered, avant-garde Thierry Mugler type, or a soft but not overly feminine Karen Kahn type, or a conservative but feline Bill Blass type? Why hadn’t she made this decision before?

Lisa had always defined herself by what she put on. But she was never quite sure that she put on the right thing, until she saw other women’s reactions. She had been mortified when neither Sooky nor Buff had noticed her outfit at Karen’s brunch, just as she had been gratified at the St. Regis to see that two smartly dressed, obviously wealthy women, lunching together, had turned to check her out. It had been an accolade, most valuable because it was grudgingly given.

She thought for a moment of her lunch with Jeffrey. And the phone calls since then. It had felt good to be confided in and very good to go to public places with such a good-looking, interesting man. Because they had met several times now. But it definitely had not felt good to know that Karen had kept so much from her. She hadn’t seen her sister since the Westport brunch, unless you counted seeing her on television.

Why had her sister become so inaccessible and secretive? And when had she gotten the idea of looking for her other mother? Lisa, when she thought of that, felt sad. Didn’t Karen want to be part of their family? Once they had been so close. Why hadn’t Karen confided in her about the sale to NormCo and about Dr. Goldman? Lisa knew her sister must be taking that news hard, so

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