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Virginia Postrel on glamour

You had a glamour.

Glamour is about editing.

There's a glamour shot.

I'm not against glamour.

There's the glamour of physics.

Glamour is a magic spell.

So glamour can be dangerous.

Glamour was a literal magic spell.

But still, glamour is an illusion.

Glamour doesn't have to be people.

National Socialism is all about glamour.

What glamour is all about I took this from a blurb in the table of contents of New York magazine, which was telling us that glamour is back glamour is all about transcending the everyday.

But there is a glamour of industry.

And there is, of course, this glamour.

So what do we mean by glamour?

This is very, very glamorous the glamour of outer space and not the alien style glamour, but the nice, clean, early '60s version.

Because glamour can be very totalitarian and deceptive.

And there's the mythic glamour of the garage entrepreneur.

Glamour invites us to live in a different world.

It is a story of hope, resilience and glamour.

The Matrix is a movie that is all about glamour.

I could do a whole talk on The Matrix and glamour.

I think glamour has a genuine appeal, has a genuine value.

It's not necessarily glamorous, but unveiling the glamour has an appeal.

So, we all think we know what glamour is. Here it is.

It's why barware is glamorous. Glamour is translucent not transparent, not opaque.

Glamour is a form of falsification, but falsification to achieve a particular purpose.

There was a tremendous amount of technical achievement associated with creating this Hollywood glamour.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

And this sense of being transported is one reason that we have glamour styling.

And, actually, you get more appreciation for glamour when you realize what went into creating it.

Well of course, in the 20th century, glamour came to have this different meaning associated with Hollywood.

She is graceful, she is mysterious and she is transcendent, and those are the central qualities of glamour.

There's a wonderful book called Crowns that's all these glamour pictures of black women in their church hats.

And I think that that's starting to get at what the core that combines all sorts of glamour is.

It's not glamour is not something you don't wake up in the morning glamorous. I don't care who you are.

That's glamour that's Michelangelo's Pieta, where Mary is the same age as Jesus and they're both awfully happy and pleasant.

As I said earlier, glamour does not have to be about people, but it has to have this transcendent quality.

You might be wondering why I'm wearing sunglasses, and one answer to that is, because I'm here to talk about glamour.

Well, one thing you can do if you want to know what glamour means is you can look in the dictionary.

And there is both a way to avoid the dangers of glamour and a way to broaden your appreciation of it.

Because for centuries, glamour had a very particular meaning, and the word was actually used differently from the way we think of it.

Lo! those who ward off (evil), when a glamour from the devil troubleth them, they do but remember (Allah's Guidance) and behold them seers!