Love, Loss, and What I Wore by Ilene Beckerman

Author:Ilene Beckerman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 1995-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

Another dress from MacWise. Although the neckline was much too low, I loved this black-and-brown-striped dress and often wore it on dates.

This red T-strap was a favorite “going-out” shoe. Dora and I wore them but Gay’s feet were too big to wear that style.

Most of the time we wore black Capezio ballet slippers, which we bought on the sixth floor of Bonwit Teller’s on Saturday afternoons.

I bought this coat at Klein’s on 14th Street. It had very avant—garde styling—like a sweater. Dora’s mother saw it and told Dora to get one, too. Mine was red and green. Dora’s was purple and blue.

Dora’s mother, Miriam Landey, was a dress designer for rich ladies who lived on the West Side. She would go to Europe in the summer to buy fine and fancy fabrics. She designed only a few styles but made them up in different fabrics.

Her showroom took the entire second floor of 22 East 65th Street. Dora and her parents lived on the third floor. Seamstresses, who did exquisite beading, worked in the back room on the second floor, surrounded by mannequins padded with tissue paper to duplicate the full figures of customers.

Dora’s mother always hired beautiful models to show the clothes. The models changed behind a mirrored screen with cupids on it. Dora’s mother loved cupids.

Dora’s father’s name was Harry. He drank martinis and listened to WQXR.

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