The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual
In provocative detail with more than one hundred illustrations,critically acclaimed author Virginia Postrel separates glamour from glitz,revealing what qualities make a person,an object,a setting,or an experience glamorous. What is it that creates that pleasurable pang of desirethe feeling of if only? If only I could wear those clothes,belong to that group,drive that car,live in that house,be (or be with) that person? Postrel identifies the three essential elements in all forms of glamour