Honoré de Balzac said once that there are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places on the same scale the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

I was thinking of that quote a few days ago, I don’t know exactly why, when I was trying desperately to find gloves that would match my dress perfectly (by the way finally I succeeded in finding the most suitable ones, as you can seen in the picture), because there are things which become quite obsolete with the changes of fashions, while in a former time they were considered nearly fundamental.

Nowadays gloves are mainly used in winter to keep one’s hands warm, but they have lost the refined role they had once, when they were necessary for an elegant lady.

Being invited by very dear friends ( whose identity I’m obliged not to reveal, and I apologize for that, but respecting friends’ privacy is fundamental for me) who are a bit formal, as befits their family traditions, I chose a specially accurate cocktail-dress and I paid a lot of attention to details.

A real lady must feel equally at ease wearing either a casual dress or a formal one. The secret is not to be a slave of fashions, but to wear what we really like in every different moment of our life.

As one of my dear Irish friends, George B.S., used to repeat,

“Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.”

Nevertheless I must confess I’m rather satisfied with my own style.

Do you find me elegant?