DRESSED
TO THE NINES!
F is for Frippery. The
objets of frippery – jewelry, clothing, shoes, perfume, make-up – are seductive
all by themselves. They sparkle, they accentuate, they leave a tantalizing
reminder of ourselves on those in our orbit, especially those we touch. Our
scent is left on their skin, our lipstick stains their body. The glimpse of
carefully accentuated flesh and the rustling of silk lingers in the memory.
“FRIPPERY! I’ll have you know it takes a lot of work to
look like this. And the reason I put so much work into looking like this?
Because you like it! Admit it. You wouldn’t have given me a second look without
all the frippery.”
His eyes glide the length of me, pausing at my décolletage –
where the low-cut burgundy silk almost bursts at the seams from working so hard
at containing me – and lingers on the sparkly diamond and ruby necklace that
accentuates my cleavage and neck, and has the balls to look at me,
stupefied. "You really think that?"
Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, in The Devil Wears Prada
What I love
about The Devil Wears Prada, by
Lauren Weisberger, is that she takes us inside the world of all that encompasses
frippery and shows us that at the core of an iconic business woman beats the
heart of someone who wants love. Needs love. There is so much more going
on below the surface, and that we need to look beyond the superficial.
Ultimately, I think that is what we all love about Chicklit! To be transported elsewhere, to be breathless with anticipation and laughter. And then, to be reminded that all that truly matters is obtainable.
In Prosecco & Paparazzi, you meet five
vivacious, can-do women, who revel in all things frippery, but much like our
heroine in The Devil Wears Prada, Andrea Sachs, they learn that, "not all that glitters
is gold!" Prosecco & Paparazzi, when a mere mortal and a celebrity god collide. (Chapter One is available on Wattpad.com.)
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