And here's one more review of My Mother's Wedding Dress

Geez, this book sure is making the rounds! Today we bring you a review from The Boston Globe:

The title essay, which describes the perfect short black dress Picardie's mother wed in, provides a portrait of her mother and her mother's South African family. In ''Ghost Dresses" she not only gives the history of the label Ghost and its gossamer creations, but also tells of the early death of her dear sister. Mother and sister appear again and again in their relation to items of dress: a Gap jacket, Charlotte Brontë's ring, ornate gold embroidery on black velvet. Interviews with Donatella Versace and Claude Montana provide an unsavory and unsettling look at the world of high fashion. ''The Return of the Little Black Dress" vividly repeats many of the well-known stories of Coco Chanel's determined climb from poor orphan to ruling potentate. Picardie touches on many of the stories and images that move young girls -- Pippi Longstocking, Jane Eyre, the Brontë sisters, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Holly Golightly, Zelda Fitzgerald. And while the stories of these women feel almost universally familiar, Picardie gives them a personal significance and makes them her own.

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