Elizabeth L. Cline, the blithe clotheshorse, ought to be the kind of person that Elizabeth L. Cline, the author of Overdressed, despises.
Within the opening half-dozen pages, Ms. Cline confesses to owning “sixty-one tops, sixty T-shirts, thirty-four tank tops, twenty-one skirts, twenty sweaters, fifteen cardigans and hooded sweatshirts, thirteen pairs of jeans, twenty-four dresses, twenty pairs of shoes . . .” and on and on, individually delineated up to “354 pieces of clothing”—plus socks and underwear.
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