Vogue contributing editor rolls back women’s lib
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Vogue contributing editor and New York socialite Plum Sykes -- whose lavish nuptials were detailed in a multi-page spread in the magazine some years ago -- clearly isn’t down with the tenets of Gloria Steinem (or ‘Sex and the City’ for that matter).
In an article hyping long-sleeved dresses in the October Vogue, the author kicks things off with the blind conviction of a TV evangelist:
‘There are three things a woman really needs at 38: a husband, at least one child, and a dress with long sleeves.’
Silly us, cultivating friendships and careers. It’s amazing that Sykes didn’t catch how regressive -- and downright Betty Crocker -- that remark is. Or perhaps she doesn’t care?
Photo: Plum Sykes dancing her ‘cares’ away in 2003. Credit: Patrick Mc Mullan