Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

fashion intelligence work-ethic

Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would not mind missing fashion shows to work late in the office.

Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

fashion intelligence work-ethic

Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would not mind missing fashion shows to work late in the office.