audrey cooking at home, 1954
In times of trouble and despondency I turn to sportswear. I have just added to my wardrobe three pairs of pastel-colored shorts and four light-gray T shirts and a yellow cotton pullover so elegant and offhand it must have been designed in France. I put on my new clothes, lace up my new white shoes, and see people. They say, “You look nice. Are those shorts new?”
“Yes, they are,” I answer.
Then I go back home and sit on the porch under the sky in my new shorts.