Happy belated Valentine's! This is my thrift tribute to that day: The Men in Your Life, Timeless Advice and Wisdom on Managing the Opposite Sex, dug up for $1.99 at my local thrift store.Written by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux in 1968 and reissued in this 2004 pink-clad hardcover, this pocketbook contains many witty tidbits of advice, organized into alphabetized blurbs on various topics and running the gamut from "absence", "accessories" and "actors" to "sins", "skin" and "slaps".
Some of the tips are charmingly dated, while others - like Dariaux's claim that men will soon be using enough beauty products as women do, are alarmingly accurate.
I love her thoughts on "chic," something which she says depends not on intelligence, money or beauty, but rather on "ease" or "nonchalance".
A great little gem.
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