My Mother's Wedding Dress [Hardcover]

Justine Picardie (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 356 pages
• Publisher: PICADOR (MACM); First Edition edition (September 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330413066
• ISBN-13: 978-0330413060
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,884,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Justine Picardie is the author of four books, including her critically acclaimed memoir If the Spirit Moves You and her most recent novel, Daphne. The former features director of British Vogue and editor of the Observer magazine, she is currently a fashion columnist for the Sunday Telegraph, and also writes for several other newspapers and magazines, including Harper's Bazaar and the Times of London. She lives in London with her two sons.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A warm, rich survey, July 24, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Mother's Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes (Hardcover)

MY MOTHER'S WEDDING DRESS: THE LIFE AND AFTERLIFE OF CLOTHES isn't just about clothes, but about their relationship to human lives. Stories of the author's family, friends, and the fashion business blends with reflections on clothes in culture to consider much more than just style trends. Stories of the author's unusual wedding dress, her own first party dress worn as a child, and inherited family clothing with the power to bridge gaps in relationships and even the living with the dead makes for a blend of memoir and fashion industry encounters with supermodels and designers alike. A warm, rich survey evolves.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully Written, October 15, 2006

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Kirsty (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Mother's Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes (Hardcover)

I loved this book. I've always thought that clothes can be so evocative of other times in my life, they are so imbued with memories and emotions and Ms Picardie has captured this. I've always enjoyed her articles in UK Vogue and could not put this book down. It really is gorgeous, and her descriptions of her mother and sister and relations are beautiful.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clothes, memory and emotions, November 9, 2006

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Sophia Errey "Isabelle booklover" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Mother's Wedding Dress: The Life and Afterlife of Clothes (Hardcover)

This is a linked set of essays by a former writer for Vogue and other UK magazines and newspapers.We gradually learn much of the writer's personal history, refracted through clothes worn by herself, her family and others.I found it a moving and beautifully written meditation on the power of clothes to stimulate our curiosity, rouse our memories and comfort us.