Darlings, We Just LOVE Aunt Pittypat!!!!!!!!!!!!

Girls, coming down off of that high which comes with reading "Gone With The Wind," it is time to mention one of its unsung characters!!!!! Now, I love absolutely everyone in the story--even that stiff necked spinster India Wilkes, and that white trash Emmie Slattery--but the one I simply ADORE is Aunt Pittypat!!!!!!

You have to hand it to her, girls, because she has a great racket going. She flutters about and patters her oversized body about on little feet, but damn well knows how to host a party, and knows when it is time to bring out the last of the fine Madeira!!!! And she has her priorities straight, girls; when the war is creeping into her front yard, and she has to evacuate, what does she reach for?????? Her hat boxes!!!!! I just love this scene in the movie, because Laura Hope Crewes nails Aunt Pittypat superbly, but also offers a valuable lesson--when traveling, even if evacuating, you had better take your best designer items, or else!!!!!!

Aunt Pitty got everyone--Scarlett, Melanie, Uncle Peter--to take care of her, so she never had to do anything!!!!! Wish I could say the same. She even got a restaurant named after her in Atlanta--Aunt Pittypat's Porch!!!!! I have not dined there, yet, but you can bet, when I go there, I will dine there my first night, and take a souvenir glass or mug, with her picture on it, with me!!!!!

Who could not love Aunt Pittypat??? Sweet and charming, but cunning in her own way as Scarlett--able to stand up to Dr. Meade at the crisis of Melanie's death--and rules the socially tight community (assisted by Mrs. Merriwether and Mrs. Meade--with kid gloves that conceal an iron fist!!!!!!

So, here is a salute to Aunt Pittypat! Let her be a lesson to you, girls!!!! When crisis comes, the first thing you take are the designer items!!!!

Dolce Gabana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!