Back to Lies and Weddings - and my friend Bill

 A Dress Revisited, and Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan

Earlier this year I did a post on Kevin Kwan's Lies and Weddings, a book that I greatly enjoyed, and which is full of excellent clothes.

Kwan mentions a lot of brand names and designers - that's part of the joy of his books. I found some nice pictures, I thought, to illustrate the post.

Now, my friend Bill Selnes blogs at Mysteries and More from Saskatchewan. As the name suggests, he covers a lot of crime fiction - and is very good on Canadian authors. But, like me, he is a big fan of Kevin Kwan's work.

So he blogged on the book too - and THEN he went and researched an actual dress from the story - 'the dress Eden chose to wear to the wedding of her friend Lady Augusta'. He tracked down the designer and some wonderful photos... I am just giving you a flavour here, because really you should go over to Bill's post and read about his researches and see two fabulous pictures.

I wrote to Bill about his achievements - and I have invented a Clothes in Books award specially for him. You can read my email and his reply in this post.

I say there that he has always been a friend to and supporter of my blog - and particularly we can always consult him on legal affairs (he is a lawyer) and also on dressing for the weather. As I point out:

when a heroine is wandering around outside unsuitably clad Bill will have a pithy comment about how better to dress for a cold climate (all that Canadian experience)... A heroine in a flattering but flimsy outfit, however fashionable, will be sternly told to put on a more suitable hat (one that keeps her warm and won't blow away), a scarf and a down jacket.

I strongly recommend Bill's blog , even when I am not featured on it!