Nora & Delia Ephron: Love, Loss & What I Wore

what is it about women and clothes do you remember the first outfit you picked out for your salary yes a felt skirt with a great big poodle on it a swing skirt I was 10 years old it was July 4th I chose a red white and blue shirt I was it like a head leaves was sleeveless my cute little collar it was like all smocked and then I had white Gujarati sandals and probably silver it's a special relationship that goes way deeper than fashion I just want to say that I personally have a rule against sleeveless turtleneck sweaters I don't understand them are you HOT or are you cold in the fit off-broadway play love loss and what I wore set for a national tour starting this September a rotating cast of stars from Rhea Perlman to Tyne Daly to Rosie O'Donnell riff on the meaning of clothes in women's lives understand in short that your purse is in some absolutely horrible way you you cosmetics but within seconds your purse has accumulated the debris of a life and look there's our own Nancy Giles I wear the dress at my wedding my sister warded hers my older daughter wore it at hers until finally it got down to my younger daughter Jenny who said no way in hell am I getting into that bad luck dress what you wear and what happened to you are indelibly connected the play is written by sisters Delia and Nora Ephron Nora the writer director behind Julie and Julia and Delia a novelist and her sister's frequent collaborator adapted it from Eileen Beckerman Illustrated memoir then you just sort of fill it in drawings like those in the book dress the stage one of the first things your mother lets you do is choose your clothes and then when you're a teenager and you're defining who you are go right back upstairs and take that off opposite of your parents where do you go to first things close and know if you're a guy watching this I just want to say when you start wearing Eileen Fisher you might as well say I give up you probably don't get it I read a quote of yours where you said basically men and cars women and clothes I don't think clothes are like that for a minute I don't think they think well I remember what I was wearing when we split up I was wearing it the day that I told al that I couldn't stay married to him anymore because I'd fallen in love with Stanley when you fall in love if you're a guy either it's what you were driving or it's what you were listening to you know the music that was on the radio were the Efron sisters fashion rivals growing up oh we weren't fashion anything and yet there's plenty of backstory to their own clothing which they've borrowed for the play and look at our saddle shoes aren't they rise they Delia's courageous decision to step away from heels I look gorgeous in high heels everyone looks gorgeous in high heels but my feet hurt I was in so much pain I couldn't think I had to choose heels or think ask for the place traumatic first bra story my father took me I still can't talk about it that's Nora's it was a 28 double a bra tiny but not tiny enough and there were these empty little puffs on my chest and the saleswoman said lean over you don't know this but this is something they're always saying to you in the broad department so I leaned over hoping that breasts would magically tumble out of my body and into the bra but they didn't of course any discussion of women and clothes leads back to mom the Efron's credit their own mother phoebe Efron with their lack of interest in fashion they say she never took them shopping still she had rules don't wear stripes and prints together never wear white before Memorial Day never wear white after Labor Day never wear white finally I said why should you never buy a red coat years had passed before I even dared to ask why and she said because people will see you coming and they'll say there she is in her red coat and it made perfect sense to me I'm trying to think who looks great in a red coat well Michael Jackson had one for a while it isn't how you look in it it's that you it's on some level you look like you work for an airline and their mom's rules went beyond what not to wear vo must be pink what do we need never Barry ran with fat ankles she said that and actually that is very good advice now why is that good advice because you don't want your children to have bad legs right when we asked Nora and Delia to put pen to paper the sisters collaborated to conjure their favorite dress of their mothers it doesn't look like anything but it wasn't round yeah I think it wasn't it was Nina rest and this was all blood that's right oh my god it was gorgeous so what is it about women and clothes while clothes may not make the woman they often tell her story

Channel: MoRocca180

Views: 19,665

Rating: 4.8857141 out of 5

Keywords: Mo, Rocca, Rosie, O'Donnell, Women, clothes, Love, Loss, What, Wore, Nancy, Giles, Nora, Delia, Ephrons

Id: SNCaRmkIiBU

Length: 6min 14sec (374 seconds)

Published: Thu May 26 2011