https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:25:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1646059 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 13:32:07 +0000 RobinF 1646059@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the recommendation, sounds like a fun read!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645996 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 09:14:07 +0000 Inge 1645996@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This was already on my wish list, and I'll definitely be ordering it now. Thanks Momo! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645968 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 04:24:04 +0000 Theodora 1645968@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks,<br /> , I ordered it </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645951 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 02:34:51 +0000 Isabel 1645951@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I LOVE this idea. &nbsp;Reminds me of the old days when we first came to this country and my mom made all her own clothes. Even her coats. Buying a store bought dress was a BIG deal. &nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645832 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:55:57 +0000 Momo 1645832@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cute book. Not perfect but really fun. Hope you all like it !</p> <p>Yes Gaylene.! That book actually figures into this book greatly. Mrs. brown is given that book just after she decides she must have the dress.<br /> It actually made me realize that I have the Miss Arris book but never finished it even though i was enjoying it </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645819 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:37:33 +0000 Peri 1645819@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the recommendation. I'm currently reading Neil Gaiman, so I'm going to want something lighter and fluffier after that! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645750 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 18:35:07 +0000 rachylou 1645750@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Reminds me of Miss Pettigrew. I'm sure I'd love this story. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645713 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 16:51:42 +0000 Gaylene 1645713@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This book sounds like a re-write of "Miss 'Arris Goes to Paris" by Paul Gallico published in 1958. His book was also made into a TV movie with Angela Landsbury in the title role. The original book is a fun read, especially when the grey-haired Ada Harris, a London charwomen (cleaner), walks into the Dior atelier hoping to buy her Dior dress.<br /> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._%27Arris_Goes_to_Paris" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik.....s_to_Paris</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645660 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:27:23 +0000 El Cee 1645660@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sounds like a fun read. I will check it out.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645639 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 13:13:19 +0000 Murph11 1645639@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Looks like a fun summer read! Thanks for the review. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/my-mrs-browmy-mrs-brown#post-1645624 Sun, 17 Apr 2016 12:01:10 +0000 Momo 1645624@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Just read this very sweet book about a lady who decides she will save up and buy a certain dress. I very much enjoyed it and bet other FABers will too :-)</p> <p>From Amazon:</p> <p>From William Norwich, the well-known fashion writer and editor, an unforgettable novel about a woman with a secret who travels to New York City on a determined quest to buy a special dress that represents everything she wants to say about that secret…and herself.</p> <p>Sometimes a dress isn’t just a dress.</p> <p>Emilia Brown is a woman of a certain age. She has spent a frugal, useful, and wholly restrained life in Ashville, a small town in Rhode Island. Overlooked especially by the industries of fashion and media, Mrs. Brown is one of today’s silent generations of women whose quiet no-frills existences would make them seem invisible. She is a genteel woman who has known her share of personal sorrows and quietly carried on, who makes a modest living cleaning and running errands at the local beauty parlor, who delights in evening chats with her much younger neighbor, twenty-three-year-old Alice Danvers.</p> <p>When the grand dame of Ashville passes away, Mrs. Brown is called upon to inventory her estate and comes across a dress that changes everything. This isn’t a Cinderella confection; it’s a simple yet exquisitely tailored Oscar de la Renta sheath and jacket—a suit that Mrs. Brown realizes, with startling clarity, will say everything she has ever wished to convey. She must have it. And so Mrs. Brown begins her odyssey to purchase the dress. For not only is the owning of the Oscar de la Renta a must, the intimidating trip to purchase it on Madison Avenue is essential as well. If the dress is to give Mrs. Brown a voice, then she must prepare by making the daunting journey—both to the emerald city and within herself.</p> <p>Timeless, poignant, and appealing, My Mrs. Brown is a novel for every mother in the world, every woman who ever wanted the perfect dress, and every child who wanted to give it to her. </p>