Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora Ephron

Love, Loss and What I Wore Reviews

• 
  talia ♡

  in my nora ephron era. and i'm happy :)
• 
  Malena

  el epítome de la feminidad que hay más mujer que vivir tu vida a través de tu ropa? nada
• 
  K.

  I finished this in a sitting, it has the Ephron lilt. I can see a lot of great audition monologues coming out of this, as soon as I finished it I turned around and bought a copy for myself.
• 
  Patty

  Wonderfully girly and familiarly sad. I was instantly sweating in a kohl's dressing room with my mom in 2009 while Hey, Soul Sister by Train blasts as every mother-daughter in there bursts into violent, camisole wearing flames. The nuance and diversity of experiences this play lacks could be brilliantly redone, by someone like Carmen Maria Machado, today. Nora Ephron could've run Apple but Steve Jobs never could've written ten monologues about his turtle neck that painfully capture the femme coming of age experience told through clothes!
• 
  alex.

  this was so relatable in so many ways … so worth the read imo
• 
  Emma O'Brien

  This play, based off a collection of short stories, is very close to my heart. Love, Loss and What I Wore is a woman's reflection on her life through her clothes and all the memories that are tied to them. This play is told in monologue form and can be read in sections which is good for lesson organization. I like this play for middle schoolers because, while we don't want people to judge us for our outsides, some of us find several aspects of our identity in the things we wear. This story, at its core, is a coming of age story as a woman describes how she found herself and re-found herself over and over again throughout her life every time she reinvented who she wanted to be. An aspect of identity that I want students to pick up on is the fact that people change who they are all the time and that's just a part of life. With this play I would be really interested in having students read this and compare it to an article about school uniforms. They could write an argument describing why clothes can be a significant aspect of defining who you are as a person.
• 
  Deb

  Fun to read and loved the references to fashions of my youth. As a whole play the vignettes are hit and miss. Some I loved.
• 
  June

  so so so good. most delicious vignettes centered around, well, love loss & what they wore. silly to serious to sad. and endlessly girly.
• 
  Lindsey Neff

  Funny, sad, and relatable. Super quick read about clothes, women, and their stories.
  
  First play I’ve read since Shakespeare in high school. I thoroughly enjoyed!
• 
  Erin Kohn

  This would be amazing live. Fav characters: Lisa and Amanda (naturally)
• 
  Elise

  Recommended by queen Carley Thorne and seeing as I am forever in my Nora Ephron era I ordered a copy from this weird theater website since that seems to be the only way you can find the play.
  
  I don't read plays a lot but this one was really cool and the original cast described on the first page was stacked. Wish I got to see the performance.
  
  But I liked the concept and read it in one sitting at the beach.
• 
  Cat

  I identified with this so much. I would love to direct this
• 
  Victoria

  Nora Ephron's voice is so distinctive and inspiring to me. Women's stories are so important and wonderful and this is aces.
• 
  Ali Lloyd

  Amazing show-stopping loved boots the house everyone read immediately
  
  Seriously so good. Stand-alone memoir-esque vignettes/monologues about the feminine experience, relationships, maternal relationships, and self-identity all centered around clothes. So fun to read, actually giggled to myself and cried at times. Such a unique way to present a raw depiction of femininity.
• 
  Kristin Boldon

  The Ephron sisters' take on Beckerman's arty memoir in dresses. Funnier than the work it's based on, with additional material worth reading for.
• 
  Millie Keogh

  Liked not loved.
• 
  Alyce E

  I recently read something I liked online by Delia Ephron. I don't remember what it was, but it was enough for me to look her up and remember about Nora Ephron and request a few of their things at the library.
  
  I walked over to the library on my lunch break a few days ago, since I'd been told that one of my items had come in, and was surprised to find that "Love, Loss, and What I Wore" was in fact a very short play, not a book as I was expecting. In my haste of requesting, I remembered that I'd heard of this title but nothing else about it. That was kind of a funny moment and reminded me to pay more attention, but I definitely wasn't disappointed!
  
  I ended up pulling it out at the gym that evening because I was looking for something to distract me (woo! remember that theme?). It's quite short (finished it in one short-ish gym session) and really hilarious. The good kind of "chick lit," I guess, reminding us how Western society is fucked but in a laughing way. Girlfriends talking about body image and clothing and all that.
  
  My favorite part was probably how several of the characters related certain pieces of clothing to certain memories/events in their past, which is something I do with all sorts of items and probably why I am a hoarder.
  
  In short, I would love to see this performed! Looking forward to some more Ephron works showing up at the library in future days.
  
  A super quick read, but a good one! Really speaks to me as a woman about how differently society treats women in different outfits and how it fucks us up. Feel like it would be especially fun to read in a stereotypical wine-filled book club setting.
• 
  Gabrielle

  My mother's theater group did this play, and she gave me a copy to read afterward. So like me (and most of the women in this book) to initially reject something quite sweet and wonderful simply because she recommended it. Perhaps by the time I turn 50 (6 months) I will stop acting like a teenager.
  
  The play is sparse and ensemble: it is rather quaint compared to most of the work I typically like, but the majority of monologues are well crafted and sincere. This is the kind of play that will speak to wide audiences and tastes.
• 
  Heatherblakely

  I don't know if it was because Delia Ephron co-wrote this, or because it was in play format instead of essays, but I liked this so much more than the other Nora Ephron pieces I've been reading. I even liked the purse scene more than I liked it as an essay. Nora's writing fits scripts better than it fits prose.
• 
  Nancy

  Reading the stories from this humorous and poignant play and thought, for much of it: "Yep. Been there, done that!"
• 
  Tiffany Day

  I really really liked this one. 4.5 stars - not really a 5-star favorite, but I will round it up for Goodreads
• 
  Sparks Smith

  This was a really nice book that was just a beautiful vibe. It speaks to how clothes are imbued with memories and stories over the course of their lifetimes. Nora also has really great comedic timing with the stories she tells, but she's able to get really vulnerable as well. It was a nice glimpse into her life.
• 
  Lora

  I waited four months to get my hands on a copy of this from the library, and it was completely worth it! I wish I could buy a copy of it so that I could re-read it whenever I wanted, and then give it to my friends so that they could read it, and then they could tell their friends to read it, and then that would just go on and on forever.... (I have very normal feelings about this play.)
• 
  Ciara Sosnowski

  Really enjoyed this, 3.5-4 I think. I could very much see this being staged, but as a read it was less poignant. I think the concept is incredible but I hoped for a little more punch than what it gave. There were moments that would have been much more touching had there not just been hugely emotional things immediately dropped, needed a little more lead in at times.
• 
  Elena

  This quick little play was enjoyable in making me think about the stories our clothes tell and what are the more universal themes among women's experiences dressing themselves. I definitely want to read the whole book now by Ilene Beckerman.
• 
  Roberta

  Read as a possible production for our teenagers. I think it would be better cast age-appropriately but waiting to see what they think. Lots to relate to for adult women. A bit hit or miss for me personally.