Comments on: Unfashionable Times http://marionblackburn.net/blog/2009/03/17/253/ Writers, writing and why we read. Posted most mornings by Marion Blackburn www.marionblackburn.net Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:56:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Marion http://marionblackburn.net/blog/2009/03/17/253/comment-page-1/#comment-2349 Marion Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:22:13 +0000 http://marionblackburn.net/blog/2009/03/17/253/#comment-2349 Overalls and a t-shirt qualifies as strictly overdressed. I'm wearing oversized floral pants and a black sweatshirt. Seriously, I do remember a time when writers were a classy bunch ... Dorothy Parker et al at the Algonquin, wearing hats and gloves ... my, how the mighty fall. Or is that the pen is mightier than the skirt? Suit? Slacks? Overalls and a t-shirt qualifies as strictly overdressed. I’m wearing oversized floral pants and a black sweatshirt.

Seriously, I do remember a time when writers were a classy bunch … Dorothy Parker et al at the Algonquin, wearing hats and gloves … my, how the mighty fall. Or is that the pen is mightier than the skirt? Suit? Slacks?

]]> By: Gene-o http://marionblackburn.net/blog/2009/03/17/253/comment-page-1/#comment-2348 Gene-o Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:15:59 +0000 http://marionblackburn.net/blog/2009/03/17/253/#comment-2348 "Writers dress in pre-Victorian ragware as a rule, and would hardly leave our pajamas at all except society requires it." What? Are you standing behind me or something? Actually, I'm wearing overalls and a T-shirt today. Such a classy bunch we are! What happened to the tweeds and twills of the Cheever writing era? “Writers dress in pre-Victorian ragware as a rule, and would hardly leave our pajamas at all except society requires it.”

What? Are you standing behind me or something? Actually, I’m wearing overalls and a T-shirt today. Such a classy bunch we are! What happened to the tweeds and twills of the Cheever writing era?

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