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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jess Cartner-Morley

Heroine chic

Emily Mortimer
‘I should put on my red dress and it would be thin as a veil ... It would make a flower shape as I sank down, in the middle of the room, on a gilt chair’

The Waves, Virginia Woolf
Photograph: John Paul Pietrus/Guardian
Emily Mortimer
‘Her dress was richly trimmed with Venetian lace. In her black hair, all her own, she wore a little garland of pansies’

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Photograph: John Paul Pietrus/Guardian
Emily Mortimer
‘A woman can never be too fine while she is all in white. No, I see no finery about you; nothing but what is perfectly proper’

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Photograph: John Paul Pietrus/Guardian
Emily Mortimer
‘She wore a slim, cool black dress, black sandals, a pearl choker ... Her mouth was large, her nose upturned. A pair of dark glasses blotted out her eyes’

Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
Photograph: John Paul Pietrus/Guardian
Emily Mortimer
‘They hadn’t tampered with her natural beauty, yet somehow they had succeeded in heightening it ... She wore eye make-up and her hair was fuller, like a lion’s mane. She still looked every inch the lady, but she was exciting now ’

Valley Of The Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
Photograph: John Paul Pietrus/Guardian
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