\"Why Don\'t You . . . <BR>tie black tulle bows on your wrists?<BR>have a yellow satin bed entirely quilted in butterflies?<BR>remember how delicious champagne cocktails are after tennis or golf? Indifferent champagne can be used for these.\" <BR>For more than half a century, Diana Vreeland, doyenne of American fashion, beguiled, awed, astonished, and was adored by almost anyone who created or wore clothes. <BR>Irresistible and flamboyant, socialite Mrs. T. Reed Vreeland began her now legendary twenty-five-year tenure at \"Harper\'s Bazaar writing a column of audacious advice: extravagant ideas that helped redefine American women and twentieth-century fashion. Her commentary created a fashion frenzy when it began appearing in \"Harper\'s Bazaar in 1936. Her ideas were simultaneously stylish and outrageous, and have as much appeal today as they did decades ago. <BR>Here for the first time, John Esten has compiled one hundred of Mrs. Vreeland\'s kaleidoscopic \"Why Don\'t You . . . ?\" suggestions, and pairedthem with the breathtaking works of such renowned photographers and artists as Munkacsi, Dahl-Wolfe, Hoyningen-Heune, and Berard, which further capture the dazzling legacy of whimsy, elegance, and style of Mrs. Vreeland\'s \"Bazaar years.<BR>.

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