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COPYRIGHT 2004 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
BYLINE:
I never knew Eleanor Lambert professionally, only at her leisure, in her home in Las Brisas, Acapulco ["The Lady, the List, the Legacy," by Amy Fine Collins, April]. My store did designer clothing for some of the smartest ladies around-Dana Wynter, Lana Turner, Ursula Andress, Eva Gabor, Merle Oberon, and both Lee Radziwill and Jacqueline Kennedy. As Lambert well understood, Lady Guinness was the absolute epitome of class-gracious and kind. She could stick an old scarecrow straw hat on her head with a bandanna and be set for the Queen's ball. Others who copied her with that hat managed only to look like the scarecrow.
Don Rose
San Antonio, Texas
I Loved your Best-Dressed List and was happy particularly to see your inclusion of Oprah Winfrey, who sets the standard for millions. I did catch one glaring omission: Linda Evangelista. She's an icon in the modeling industry, and there aren't too many that have a better sense of fashion and style than she does.
John Anaya
Chicago, Illinois
You must have been very desperate to find a nonwhite male for your list. Sean Combs's style is a combination of pimp, ghetto-fabulous, and make-believe dandy. He tried too hard and you did not try hard enough.
Dat X. Fitzgerald
Boston, Massachusetts
THE SOUNDS BENEATH THE SCARF
Marie Brenner's "Daughters of France, Daughters of Allah" [April] brought back harrowing memories of a lovely young Islamic woman with whom I worked in New York almost two decades ago.
She confided in me out of sheer desperation, sharing the detailed horror of living as a Muslim woman in an arranged marriage. She had suffered the indignity of female castration at the age of six, despised the painful act of sexual intercourse with her husband, and suspected he was about to bring another "wife" into her house. She cried her eyes out as she explained that, the following summer, her six-year-old daughter was going "home" to Egypt to have her castration executed....
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