title: Tough Girls Don't Knit: And Other Tales of Stylish Subversion
author: Freda Garmaise
description: The foibles, trends and incongruities of modern life receive a good-natured skewering in this collection of short essay-styled observations. Garmaise, Cockney-born, a former Canadian broadcaster who now lives in Manhattan, draws mainly on personal experiences that she has imprinted with personal panache. Owner of a handbag designated by her daughters as "the cargo of shame," she defends shopping with originality--"The practice of buying things one cannot afford is a degradation of shopping"--and proposes interesting ways to view television: "in the nude" or "while 'tellyphoning' "). Few current quirks, fads, media happenings escape the sharp eye of this wry advocate of individuality. <br />Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Content Warning
  
  
  _Knit, Purl, a Baby and a Girl_ includes references to fatphobia and
  disordered eating, and mentions of pregnancy loss.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Knit, Purl, a Baby and a Girl
  
  
  Hettie Bell
  
  
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  To Barb and the Wandering Woolies,  
  who from my very first meeting made  
  me feel like I belonged.
  
  
  In memory of Nicole Forcine,  
  cane-wielding clinic escort and all-around badass.  
  Rest in Power.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  [Chapter One](Chapter_One.xhtml#_idTextAnchor000)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](Chapter_Two.xhtml#_idTextAnchor001)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](Chapter_Three.xhtml#_idTextAnchor002)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](Chapter_Four.xhtml#_idTextAnchor003)
  
  
  [Chapter Five](Chapter_Five.xhtml#_idTextAnchor004)
  
  
  [Chapter Six](Chapter_Six.xhtml#_idTextAnchor005)
  
  
  [Chapter Seven](Chapter_Seven.xhtml#_idTextAnchor006)
  
  
  [Chapter Eight](Chapter_Eight.xhtml#_idTextAnchor007)
  
  
  [Chapter Nine](Chapter_Nine.xhtml#_idText