Let's Bring Back: An Encyclopedia of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful, Chic, Useful, Curious, and Otherwise Commendable Things from Times Gone By
Chronicle Books, November 2010
When was the last time you wore a cape to the opera? Or white gloves to lunch? Why did we ever do away with bed curtains or cuckoo clocks? Whatever happened to parlor games, calling cards, double features, duels, monocles, riddles, turbans, and parasols? Well, let's bring them back!
Whimsical and witty, this beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of nostalgia celebrates the elegant, mysterious, and delightful trappings of bygone ages. Based on author Lesley M. M. Blume's popular Huffington Post column of the same name and featuring entries from many contemporary icons of style, culture, and letters -- including Kate Spade, James L. Brooks, Nora Ephron, Daniel Boulud, and Arianna Huffington -- Lets Bring Back . . . revels in the past and, above all, honors the timeless tradition of artful living.
Hardcover | ISBN: 9780811874137 | Publication Date: November 2010
Reviews:
"The Way We Were: A new book, Let's Bring Back, chronicles
traditions, personalities, heirlooms, and elements of generations
worthy of being dusted off and enjoyed once again"
- -Vanity Fair
"Elegant . . . whimsical . . . As Blume herself might put it, we
just think this book is the bee's knees."
- -O, the Oprah Magazine
"If you're feeling lousy and you read this book, it awakens you to
things that have made you happy in your life. It reminds you of a
time when certain things - ideas, gestures - got you through.
[Let's Bring Back] promotes and revels in an idea of life that's lived
in 3-D, not 2-D, a life lived civically and civil-y. And that is
a very wonderful thing."
- -SALLY SINGER, editor of T, The New York Times Style Magazine
"Witty . . . Blume reminisces about a time when women leisurely met
for tea instead of gulping down caramel macchiatos with Blackberries in
tow. And, of course, no outfit was complete without the right hat and
red lipstick - even better if that outfit was one of Elsa
Schiaparelli's or Paco Rabanne's daring designs."
- -Bazaar
