Welcome to the latest edition of Looks from Books, which aims to prove that you can look smart, while still being book-smart, too. Fashion inspiration can be found between the pages of your favorite stories, on well-designed book covers, and in your favorite characters… if you read closely enough.

The weather has been unbelievably sunny and gorgeous up here in Seattle recently. In fact, it reminded me of one sunny summer afternoon, where an excursion down a river for a picnic led to a story that has remained popular for over 100 years and counting… here’s Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland! 

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Alice in Wonderland is a work of classic children’s literature, published by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll, in 1865.

The story follows a little girl named Alice who wanders away from her elder sister to follow a white rabbit in a waistcoat, and falls down a rabbit hole into a mysterious new land. She finds herself unable to get home, and is completely confused by the fantasy world she has come to visit. Full of anthropomorphic creatures, some very contrary royalty, and a jury decidedly not in her favor, Alice winds her way through this confusing Wonderland, only to awaken beneath the tree where she and her sister sat reading.

Charles Dodgson was a British writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer, who originally wrote the story for his young friend Alice Liddell, as well as her sisters Edith and Lorina. While Dodgson would eventually have a severe falling out with the family – of unknown certified origin to historians – references to the three girls, as well as other people they knew at Oxford, populate the book and its sequel.