She dressed for a future not yet with us but which she expected to arrive. That's what her plain white linen trousers were for, her blue-and-white-striped "Breton" T-shirt, her frayed espadrilles, her severe and beautiful African head-everything so plain, so understated, completely out of step with the spirit of the time, and with the place.
( Zadie Smith )
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