Windowlicker (Summer Edition)

I'm going to Atlantic City for the weekend soon (Ava-style) and might need a little somethin'-somethin' for the beach...

[Early Vanity Fair contributor Helen Brown Norden's out-of-print 1937 essay collection, The Hussy's Handbook, $18 at AbeBooks]

Windowlicker - from the French for window shopping: faire du lèche-vitrine - often appears on Tuesday and Thursdays at 10am EST-ish

Comments

[Jonathan]

Norden: "Though outwardly all froth and fragility, [the Southern belle] is really welded of indestructible steel....When she surrenders her virtue, it is generally for a sound, practical reason, like matrimony, her name in lights on Broadway, or a block of U.S. Steel." Quoted in Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy by John Shelton Reed. Nice!