21 Jul 1921

21 July 1921

Chalet des Sapins, Montana-sur-Sierre, Switzerland

By the way can you tell me the address of a man who makes really well cut breeks? I foresee that with the fall of the first leaf the only thing to do will be to shed ones petticoats & go in mans attire until next spring. It will be much too cold for anything else. But I don't know a single tailor who really can cut WELL & who goes in for such things. Who cut your lovely ones? And was he a very frabjous price? I shall have to have 2 pairs & wear them with thick wooly cardigans - or what would you suggest? How charming you looked at Garsington - it seems such years ago since that time. There is a great gulf between.
  Do tell me more about your painting next time you write. Has France changed your ideas? Have you been disappointed in French painters? What are you working at now? In London, I mean. Oh, Heavens - how difficult Art is. Its the perpetual work at technique which is so hard. Its not enough to know what you want to say - but to be able to say it - to be equipped to say it! That is a life's work.

[To Dorothy Brett in Collected Letters, 25 July, 1921.]