SummaryA Life, a Witch, and a Wardrobe, or, the Wonder Years
Before the Condescending,Egomanical, Self-Centered Smart Ass
Phase
The hardcover debut from the New York Times
bestselling author—the prequel to Bitter is the New
Black.
In Pretty in Plaid, Jen Lancaster reveals how she
developed the hubris that perpetually gets her into trouble.
Using fashion icons of her youth to tell her hilarious and
insightful stories, readers will meet the girl she used to be.
Think Jen Lancaster was always "like David Sedaris with
pearls and a super-cute handbag?" (Jennifer Coburn) Think
again. She was a badge-hungry Junior Girl Scout with a knack
for extortion, an aspiring sorority girl who didn’t
know her Coach from her Louis Vuitton, and a budding
executive who found herself bewildered by her first
encounter with a fax machine. In this humorous and touching
memoir, Jen Lancaster looks back on her life—and
wardrobe—before bitter was the new black and shows us
a young woman not so very different than the rest of us.
The author who showed us what it was like to wait in line at
the unemployment office with a Prada bag, how living in the
city can actually suck, and that losing weight can be fun
with a trainer named Barbie and enough Ambien is ready to
take you on a hilarious and heartwarming trip down memory
lane in her shoes (and very pretty ones at that).
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