I was disappointed to find out, after spending the weekend cleaning out my closet, that the Dress for Success affiliate in Fairfield County is closing its doors at the end of the month.

After hearing the show I thought to check High5 to see if there were tickets available for NYC's young adults. Unfortunately, not. I think this would have been a great opportunity to share the arts with young women in NYC while also teaching them the value of social responsibility at its best. Oh well.

A benefit for Dress for Success justifies this segment and the play, no matter how trivial you might think the subject. I bristle at generalizations about women loving to shop and being obsessed with clothing. I'm not. Having said that, what woman doesn't have strong, formative memories about clothing--funny, traumatic or some combination of the two? It's part of life and one of the ways we define ourselves and are defined as women, too. Thankfully, we have Eve Ensler to give us a reality check about the horrific ways girls and women are treated globally. She'd dig a benefit for Dress for Success. We can all do something to help on some level.

As for the previous segment? Painful! I could barely live through it. Sounded to me as if the daughters were suffering from arrested development, stuck in that phase of teenage monosyllables and recalcitrance. It sounded as if all three of them were still struggling. Sad.

Jim (comment 1): "so far to the left"? I haven't noticed any Maoist films around lately. Liberals are not "so far to the left."

You should've called me! My mother was sly - she got me to wear things by telling me things like, "GiGi would wear this! It's your GiGi dress!" Or, later, " you look like a tick tied in the middle.

My boyfriend takes on and off sets of clothes before he decides what to wear, and is much less decisive than my exwife, in contradiction to one of the ladies claims that men don't do such things!

A few weeks a go I had a fire in my house and lost all my clothing from the last 20 years and more. It was heart broken, my wedding dress (that I kept for my daughter to try), shirts that I kept from my sister and mother who had passed away went along with the fire. We were lucky because nothing else was damagged and my 3 kids were out of the house. I do feel though as part of my New York life and experience when I was a young girl went away in that fire.

Yes, Leonard - where is Eve Ensler???

Also, Nora - mend DO indeed have wardrobe processes while dressing - in France and Italy -
and the men are soo elegant

I thought she just said that the performances were free, but I just looked at the website and it's says all tickets are $50.

"vagamonologuesesque"?

please shoot me now.

I can't believe that Eve Ensler is in town to speak about her efforts in the Congo and we are listening to stories of bras deflating. This show is painful - I'm nearly at the point of turning on Lifetime TV.

Leonard's doing his best, god(dess) bless him.

Yo, Jim, it's 'cause right-wingers don't go into the arts, they go into banking...

Ms. Ephron -- I enjoy your commentaries at Huffington Post, and also the films written by your parents are delightful.

You are a real trooper today Leonard.

Monologues about clothes!!!
Sounds great ! Where can I buy tickets. I'm skipping poker night and heading right over.

Why are most entertainers and film makers/playwrights so far to the left of the political spectrum?