what you want to suggest

You guys.

I'm reading this book to prepare for next semester's Ekphrastic Practices class:

Songs for Olympia | Sagging Meniscus Press

It's ekphrasis of this book:

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat,

which is ekphrasis of the Manet painting:

& btw I will also assign this piece by Lorraine O'Grady.

But back to the book, which quotes from the Marguerite Duras book Practicalities:

"Duras writes [that] dressing:  . . . 'is an attempt to reconcile form and content, to match what you think you look like, what you think you are with what you want to suggest.'"

Do you think that's true?