In Quarantine, Love Is Wearing My Emmys Gown
that March 22 be the first #DistanceButMakeItFashion group action. I pulled out a sparkly never-worn Ted Baker jumpsuit, shared my photo, went back to watchingwith my daughter, a beloved old favorite that happens to be extremely fashion conscious. In fact, that whole weekend was dominated by movies in which clothes were integral to the story—I couldn’t help noticing how good it felt, gettingand putting on makeup, even if I never left my bedroom.
The next day I was back at the foot of my bed, staring down the mirror in our Art Deco armoire in an outfit that always makes me feel chic and put together: knit black pants and a Brochu Walker sweater with billowing white sleeves. When friends mock-protested my untimely embrace of style, I slipped on a leopard-print coat and bright red Celine sunglasses, then took another selfie.Eight weeks later and counting, I am still dressing up, still posting a daily selfie.
In fact, it was writing about that truce with my body that had led, in part, to my book of personal essays that was to have been published May 5. As the lead essay attests, I have honestly never felt more beautiful than I do now, at the age of 61. My hair has grown to a length that older women are encouraged to shun, but I rather like the look. My face and neck carry the marks of six decades, but hey, lots of people like midcentury modern. I look in the mirror and I love what I see.
As it happens, I’m writing a novel, due June 1, that’s reliant on seemingly random memories coming together and creating a whole greater than its parts. Even before quarantine, the novel was giving me fits and I had requested extensions, from February 1 to May 1 to June 1, something I’ve done only once before while writing 24 novels in 25 years. Magically, my work started going better. The closet stories were priming the pump, putting me in the frame of mind to write.
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