“Madame Jouvenon was . . . seated in La Sevillana eating a merinque. She was a bright-eyed little woman whose hair, having gone prematurely white, she had unwisely allowed to be dyed a bright silvery blue. To complete the monochromatic color scheme she had let Mlle. Sylvie dye her brows and lashes a much darker and more intense shade of blue. The final effect was not without impact.”

—Paul Bowles, from Let it Come Down, 1952.