Virginia Postrel Quotes About Glamour

• Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

  Virginia Postrel

  Morning, People, Wake Up

• European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion.

  Virginia Postrel

  War, Reality, People

  Virginia Postrel (2013). “The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

• Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

  Virginia Postrel

  Perfect, World, Glamour

• Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

  Virginia Postrel

  Giving, World, Opaque

• The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

  Virginia Postrel

  Air, Luxury, Imagination

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