Shoes, Chocs, Bags, and Frocks - Tapa dura

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Edward Monkton, perhaps better known as the U.K.'s top-selling living poet Giles Andreae, pairs a witty and quirky writing style with simple yet elegant illustrations to celebrate the four bastions of femininity, namely: shoes, chocolate, purses, and clothes.

Be it a handbag of glory, the shoes of salvation, the beautiful frock, or the kingdom of chocolate, Monkton fluidly expounds the virtues of many a lady's desires:

Buy me, Lady," said the frock,

"and I will make you into a

BEAUTIFUL and WHOLE and

COMPLETE Human Being."

"Do not be SILLY," said the Man,

"for a frock alone cannot do that."

"TRUE," said the Lady. "I will

have the Shoes and the Bag as well."

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