"This is the best thing to wear for the day, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts, and the best thing is to wear panty-hose, or some pants... under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt, and you can pull the stockings up over the pants, underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for the day. I have to think these things up, you know. Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a fight..."
-Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale