A Bostonian by birth and training, the daughter of the late Charles P. Curtis, SALLY ISELINmarried a well-known New York sculptor and went to live in Manhattan, where she discovered that the women enjoy spending money with no thought of Yankee frugality.
SALLY ISELIN and her husband Lewis, the sculptor, are now abroad, where he is supervising the setting of his war memorial and where she has been making a candid examination of the French and Italian shops and fashions. Having gone to Europe with a welter of things she did not need, she now writes to warn other American wives of what not to bring — and suggests what to look for.
SALLY ISELIN could have been a Proper Bostonian; instead she married and moved to New York, where she is rearing a happy family and where she has been occasionally employed as columnist, feature writer, editor, and writer-contact in television. What she does, she does with zest but without ever losing her New England propensity to enjoy the zanier aspects of Manhattan activity. Her first article, “I Bought a Dress in Paris,”appeared in the Atlantic for September, 1951. This is her second, and there is a series to come.
American travelers who have recently been shopping in Paris will read with sympathy this forthright. documented article by SALLY ISELIY. Mrs. Iselin could have been a Proper Bostonian. Instead she married and went to New York, where she has scored a swift success as columnist, feature writer, and editor. Today she is working for the Columbia Broadcasting System and keeping her pen busy in off hours.