(March 15, 1953): “A woman now, and without having to leave 
the country, can have the best of five (or more) nations 
hanging in her closet—beautiful and compatible as a 
statesman’s dream.” That is why, in the photographic age, 
fashions have come to be like the collage style in painting.

     A century ago the British craze for the monocle gave to 
the wearer the power of the camera to fix people in a superior 
stare, as if they were objects. Eric von Stroheim did a great job 
with the monocle in creating the haughty Prussian officer. Both 
monocle and camera tend to turn people into things, and the 
photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the 
proportions of mass-produced merchandise. The movie stars 
and matinee idols are put in the public domain by photography. 
They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought 
and hugged and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.