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- Author: Florence Fields
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OPHELIA
TEN YEARS AGO, when I was deciding what to wear to senior prom, my
grandma drove me to Oklahoma City to the nearest Macy’s and we prayed
for a good clearance sale. I had saved every penny religiously since I got
my first job on my fourteenth birthday. Even so, I refused to take more than
fifty dollars from my “For New York” shoebox, its contents too precious to
squander on a one-night event. My dress search was in vain, and we
resorted to the familiar Rags and Tags thrift store in my podunk town.
I don’t have that problem anymore.
I lay out three designer dresses across my bed. Two still have their tags
on. They’re a small selection from my overstuffed closet. I’m still a pennypincher at heart, but these dresses—and the dozens more I have like them—
are courtesies of being a fashion journalist for Atelier Today Magazine
where designers do anything they can to get me to do a feature on them.
“What about the champagne one?” I ask Gemma, holding the first dress
up and letting it swirl around me.
She purses her lips. “Too wedding-y. And the emerald one is too on the
nose for a holiday party.”
I pick up the last dress, one that debuted at Dior’s show last summer. It
hits right above my ankle, just high enough to show off a nice pair of
Chanel heels. The dress’ baby pink fabric is dotted with groups of intricate
red and white beads as if the dress is blooming in thousands of tiny flowers.
Holding the dress up in the mirror, I tilt my head to the side. “Is it too
much?”
Gemma gives me her motherly smile, the one she saves just for me.
“Ophelia, it’s perfect. Everyone goes all out for Hoffman’s holiday parties.”
Gemma moved from Atelier to Outdoorsy last month. Her old position
at a fashion publication is a far cry from working on a magazine that has
ads for bug repellent and protein bars. But thankfully, both Atelier Today
and Outdoorsy are part of Hoffman Publishing, so Gemma and I can still
share a coffee before work every morning and go to company events
together.
I give my curls one last coat of hairspray while Gemma smooths out her
silver-streaked bob, a style she swears Diane Keaton stole from her a
decade ago. After I step into my dress, Gemma zips it up for me. Her hands
linger on my shoulders for a moment, a mothering touch.
I secure my grandpa’s watch onto my wrist. It has a faux gold face and
brown leather strap that is worn in two places—the hole where he fastened
it, and the hole where I do. It’s old, the glass is scratched, and it doesn
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