I checked the book above out of the library. I wasn’t charmed by the narrative. As I would’ve liked to hear about Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s humanitarian efforts if she engaged in any. I wasn’t enamored of the focus on her beauty actually.

One detail that I took in positively was the authors reference to how CBK was naturally attuned to choosing and wearing clothes that fit her body.

I wrote in here years ago that the motto of a woman’s fifties should be: “There’s nothing I won’t wear, and I’ll try anything once.”

After reading CBK: A Life in Fashion I would like to follow up that assertion with a codicil: We should wear the items we feel good in. And I think it’s true that we’ll feel good in the items that fit and flatter. Without having to tug or tussle with a skirt or other clothing item.

In the Science of Fitness magazine an article referred to how women in order to feel good about our bodies should dress in our favorite clothes that we like to wear and feel good in.

Every wardrobe should have at least 5 of these outfits that are winners if you ask me. An outfit we can choose on those days. A day where we don’t want the attention to be on us. A day where we need extra confidence. And so on.

CBK wore black almost always. She was also drawn to beige. Beige. No kidding.

The rule allegedly stated that an older woman should buy a gray cashmere sweater. No way for this blogger!

I think finding your seasonal colors and wearing those colors that you look good in will brighten your mood not just your face. I happen to be a Winter by the way. My favorite color to wear is hot pink.

Though I say it’s OK to dress in your favorite colors–seasonal color theory be damned! I simply don’t like to dress in neutrals like ivory, beige, camel, gray, brown, and mustard.

Come on really–how many of us really look good in a mustard sweater?

I’d say to check CBK: A Life in Fashion out of the library. It’s an easy, breezy read that should be accepted for what it is: A joyful ode to a woman who cheered up and cheered on the people she worked with at Calvin Klein and interacted with in the designer stores she shopped at.

I say to not discount reading “fluff” as even I’ve stopped reading hard-hitting social science nonfiction. I recommend checking out of the library books on self-help (150s), beauty (646s), business (650s), and design (747s)

Perhaps reading CBK: A Life in Fashion could be a momentary escape on a rainy day.

I’m all for a different kind of entertainment like readings books, listening to music, and making art. Instead of hours-on-end social media scrolling.

Allora. Now Then. Let’s have fun this summer.