This question may be inane, but I'm posing it anyway.
While Honey was clearly dressed to exude 'dowdiness', and Martha's attire chosen as the diametric opposition...
Was Honey braless on purpose...as to underscore her lack of sex appeal?!?
Or, was this a sign of the times, when woman began to go braless as a statement for 'women's lib'?
Seriously, just curious for others opinion(s)!
That's a good observation, actually. My guess is that this was meant to show her in the early stages of debauchery. Albee, in his plays, likes to explore what makes otherwise normal people deviate from the ideal and become slouches--sort of like George & Martha. It seems Nick & Honey are meant to be a younger version of G & M, right at that point of their marriage where it begins to decay. I think the bralessness might be Nichols's gimmicky attempt to portray her as beginning to let herself go, in a way people of that time would understand. Plus, she's inebriated.
shareAha...like your take in that! Thank you!
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