You’d think that Autumn was a once-in-a-lifetime event, and that it came round like a comet every century. Because, even when you know pretty much what’s coming, every year is like seeing i...
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/11/15/blazing-inferno/
It was the hottest ticket of the party season, and Cynthia was thrilled to have snagged an invite. But why on earth did the Sly Languish PR Agency have to be so quite so… understated on the inv...
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/the-gates-of-heaven-and-hell/
You know how there are some books that you could almost literally sink your teeth into (if it wasn’t for the fact that bite marks on pages are always ugly)? Well, Elegance: The Séeberger Broth...
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/10/26/book-review-elegance/
Petunia couldn’t believe it. Not only did she get to model Mr. Forquet’s dress in Italy, but at a lavish dinner for eighteen at La Cisterna, one of Rome’s swankiest restaurants. It was too ...
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/location-location-location/
Princesse de Broglie, by James Tissot c.1895 Ah, Mr. Tissot- you and your lovely pictures of enchanting women in beautiful frocks! Of which this is not, perhaps, one. Because you see this one, th...
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/no-one-wants-to-be-foliage/
They said to travel hopefully was better than to arrive, and Violet agreed 100%. She'd been on the number 1 tram all day, cruising round and round the Ringstrasse until she began to feel deligh...
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/dont-stop-the-world/
October 1932, and a crisis is facing the fashion world. Luckily for us the writers at Britannia & Eve magazine were on hand to demystify matters. (Or make them more complicated. One or the other....
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/here-there-or-somewhere-else/
The temperature here is in the high 20s (Celsius, that is, because otherwise that would obviously not be good at all…) And, despite the autumn leaves, everyone’s wondering round all bemused a...
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/mis-timed-knits/
Sandra remained perfectly still in an attitude of prayer: hands demurely clasped, eyes closed (well, almost) in devotion. Of course she knew that her seat- right in the front pew, dead centre- wa...
Back in 2009 I blogged about the “Beetlewing dress” worn by Victorian actress Ellen Terry to play Lady Macbeth- and the National Trust’s project to restore it. Well, the restored dress is...
https://glassoffashion.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/beetle-wing-dress-revisited/