Vreeland became known early in her career for her Why Don't You? column. Some of our favorite suggestions include:
Why Don't You...
…have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful—a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?
… paint a map of the world on all four walls of your boys’ nursery so they won’t grow up with a provincial point of view?
...tie black tulle bows on your wrists?
...wash your blond child’s hair in dead champagne to keep its gold, as they do in France?
...remember how delicious champagne cocktails are after tennis or golf? Indifferent champagne can be used for these.
... turn your child into an Infanta for a fancy-dress party?
…give someone an enormous white handkerchief linen table-cloth, and in different handwriting and colors (black, acid green, pink, scarlet and pale blue) have embroidered all the bon mots you can possible think of?
