Schiaparelli dresses....

Glastonbury for fans of Golden Age crime fiction! Bodies From The Library's annual conference was as splendid as ever. Jake Kerridge and I did a presentation on GA reference books, and so I have included our list as part of the blogpost.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/gold...

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I wrote aobut Pride & Prejudice for the i newspaper, but saved for my blogpost clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/cult... my most important conclusion about book/screen versions:

They knew how to enjoy themselves in 1955. (from Andrew Barrow's Gossip book). Harold Macmillan bowled out by Mr Pastry. @robpalk.bsky.social Who can we put up against David Lammy?

...Only people of a certain age will appreciate (or even understand) my description of the 1970s Persuasion that 'looks like the cast of Howard’s Way in Regency clothes, shot in a Berni Inn.'

Any alternate history people here? TIL that George V nearly died in 1928, 'desperately ill', Prince of Wales summoned home, crowds at BuckPal. PoW had not met Mrs Simpson yet - how would things have been different if he'd succeeded to the throne then? A man in possession is a very different thing...

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So what did Harriet D Vane's wedding dress look like? IYKYK. I did a blogpost with some possibles.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Every year I would post this quote on Twitter around now in January. It was usually my most popular post of the year - will Bluesky match that?
It's the incomparable Bridget Jones, nailing it on life post Xmas