TRIS APFEL ON… TIMELESS STYLE

‘I’ve loved fashion ever since I was a little girl. I always liked dressing up, and my mother was very chic. She was at home with me until I was about 11, when she went back to work, leaving me to fend for myself. I recall one occasion when Easter was coming and I didn’t have an outfit to wear for the big parade on Fifth Avenue. It was the height of the Great Depression, and my mother was too busy getting her business established to take me shopping. So, instead, she said, ‘I’ll give you 25 dollars’, which was a generous amount of money at that time, ‘and you can go into the city and get yourself