Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would not mind missing fashion shows to work late in the office.
Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
fashion, intelligence, work-ethic