My Mom, the (Literary) Style Icon

This Sunday is Mother’s Day. To commemorate the holiday, I enlisted the help of Piper Weiss, the author of the charming new blog-to-book “My Mom Style Icon.” Weiss was inspired to start a blog after discovering a hidden cache of pictures of her mother, Marilyn, taken during her globetrotting youth in the late sixties. In one picture, a Jamaican soldier ogles fetching young Marilyn, who’s wearing a wide-brimmed hat, hip-huggers, and a groovy arm band; in another, Marilyn wears a bright-yellow jumpsuit while sitting astride a camel in Morocco. Chock-full of aged snapshots of once-young mothers in cat-eye glasses, beehive hairdos, and fringed suede vests, “My Mom Style Icon” is a celebration of vintage fashion and the youthful spirit that once inspired it. Below are Weiss’s thoughts on some fashionable literary moms.

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