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Sat 10 Oct 2009She wears it well
FASHION BLOGGERS:WHEN I WAS a child, my mother’s elderly aunt used to come over for Sunday dinner. One day she was particularly animated; she had, she said, received a very strange call. “A young man rang the house,” she told us. “And it was very odd, he asked me what I was wearing.” The table fell silent. Laughs were suppressed and we waited, breaths bated, for what was coming next, writes ROSEMARY MCCABE
Her brow furrowed. She looked down and began to gesture. “‘Well,’ I told him, ‘I’m wearing a slip, and a dress, and a pair of stockings . . . ’” all the while pointing out each item. Needless to say, the young man didn’t hang around for her to get to “lace-up brogues”.
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