Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.
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- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: british
- Born: October 12, 1938
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