tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post8224570020728362067..comments2024-03-29T11:36:25.050+00:00Comments on Clothes In Books: The Brandons by Angela Thirkell: Part 2Clothes In Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-52845195898498458992015-04-27T08:53:39.341+01:002015-04-27T08:53:39.341+01:00If you ever do get interested, this is definitely ...If you ever do get interested, this is definitely the one to read, my favourite of hers so far.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-41285857832765384132015-04-27T02:49:54.915+01:002015-04-27T02:49:54.915+01:00Still sounds interesting, so maybe someday, if I g...Still sounds interesting, so maybe someday, if I get interested Thirkell. You never know.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-71940131573958795012015-04-26T10:56:30.882+01:002015-04-26T10:56:30.882+01:00I had a look and I don't think it is, though i...I had a look and I don't think it is, though it could be! Once you hear that story you look at all pictures of brides very suspiciously. I wish I could track down the artist - I definitely didn't make it up...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-77184590360096822522015-04-26T00:45:29.927+01:002015-04-26T00:45:29.927+01:00Could that be The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulm...Could that be The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche? Your description just seemed to match.... though I had never heard the dead girl story!Daniel Milford-Cottamhttps://www.facebook.com/danielmilfordcottamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-19645825941850329722015-04-25T13:44:22.018+01:002015-04-25T13:44:22.018+01:00What an intriguing story, thanks Ken. The mind bog...What an intriguing story, thanks Ken. The mind boggles at the project. It reminds me of a bizarre 19th Century oil painting I once saw in an exhibition, called something like 'the bride is prepared by her handmaids', showing a woman in white lying on a chair surrounded by other young women. The caption revealed that the artist had originally painted a dead girl being prepared for burial, but no-one wanted to buy that, so he painted over her dress to make it white, and re-named it. It gave a very creepy air to the picture to know that...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-53521813422948293742015-04-25T12:17:56.255+01:002015-04-25T12:17:56.255+01:00When George VI and Queen Elizabeth were getting re...When George VI and Queen Elizabeth were getting ready for a state visit to France in 1938, the Queen's mother died suddenly. The court went into mourning and the visit was put off for three weeks. Norman Hartnell suggested that white was the traditional colour of mourning for queens in history and that instead of wearing black to Paris, she could wear white. All of the clothes he had made for her to wear in France were remade in shades of white in that three week period. Great one for setting an example, she was.Ken Nyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08838597854722716546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-79272850386127922112015-04-24T21:53:56.711+01:002015-04-24T21:53:56.711+01:00You make a very good point Chrissie - mourning did...You make a very good point Chrissie - mourning did have the advantage of letting everyone know that you might be fragile. <br />I have a friend who was doing the flowers at church, and used beautiful white lilies, to be told by more experienced flower arrangers that this was 'very brave', as the lilies suggested death and funerals. I wouldn't have know that...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-25114671213155958252015-04-24T16:35:41.814+01:002015-04-24T16:35:41.814+01:00Good call, Moira! I think she does indeed get fed ...Good call, Moira! I think she does indeed get fed up with mourning. And I think you have the potential there for a fantastic entry; I hope you'll do one. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-13151600853527560812015-04-24T15:51:12.380+01:002015-04-24T15:51:12.380+01:00In China white is the colour (or rather lack of co...In China white is the colour (or rather lack of colour) of mourning, which has rather put me off white flowers.<br />Victorian mourning could be tough, I agree, but maybe we have gone too far the other way in not allowing ways of expressing bereavement and signalling one's vulnerable state.Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16510409974009816550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-22680008488669856482015-04-24T15:31:53.310+01:002015-04-24T15:31:53.310+01:00Hope springs eternal....seeya tomorrow then!Hope springs eternal....seeya tomorrow then!col2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-38868969602922933412015-04-24T15:29:32.851+01:002015-04-24T15:29:32.851+01:00You also deserve better because you made me laugh ...You also deserve better because you made me laugh so much with the line about the washing line! tomorrow I'll be pushing a Guardian piece, but it does start from a thriller....Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-85115172408343455312015-04-24T15:24:40.172+01:002015-04-24T15:24:40.172+01:00I'm with you Margot, mourning is a fascinating...I'm with you Margot, mourning is a fascinating subject. The Victorian customs were very rigid and rather hard on the survivors I think. And now I'm remembering - Scarlett in Gone with The Wind gets fed up with mourning doesn't she? I must see if there's an entry there....Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-26916767066730256182015-04-24T15:21:25.162+01:002015-04-24T15:21:25.162+01:00Sadly not - particularly when you factor in all th...Sadly not - particularly when you factor in all the treats I've been serving you up over on mine this week...haha.<br /><br />Better fare tomorrow?col2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-57865393224995002172015-04-24T15:19:18.424+01:002015-04-24T15:19:18.424+01:00It's really not being your week is it? I will ...It's really not being your week is it? I will try to do better in future...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-37114554784045689142015-04-24T15:01:01.770+01:002015-04-24T15:01:01.770+01:00The kind of book that has me longing for a washing...The kind of book that has me longing for a washing line, I thinkcol2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-71221250833351147792015-04-24T12:27:08.574+01:002015-04-24T12:27:08.574+01:00All of that about mourning and dress is really int...All of that about mourning and dress is really interesting, Moira. And not something you'd usually think of as a major topic for a novel. Actually, I know it may sound morbid, but I find mourning customs fascinating. They do vary so much over time and across different cultural groups. And I love those descriptions of Miss Brandon. What a great 'horrible aunt!' Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-17537149759293151932015-04-24T11:12:23.069+01:002015-04-24T11:12:23.069+01:00Yes, what an interesting and meaningful perception...Yes, what an interesting and meaningful perception, thanks. Giving the reader clear moral perceptions is an undervalued art. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-3198318823246830332015-04-24T10:55:20.572+01:002015-04-24T10:55:20.572+01:00I LOVE Dorothy Parker's "horrible aunt&qu...I LOVE Dorothy Parker's "horrible aunt" description:<br /><br />"I think I knew first what side I was on when I was about five years old, at which time nobody was safe from buffaloes. It was in a brownstone house in New York, and there was a blizzard, and my rich aunt—a horrible woman then and now—had come to visit. I remember going to the window and seeing the street with the men shoveling snow; their hands were purple on their shovels, and their feet were wrapped with burlap. And my aunt, looking over her shoulder, said, ‘Now isn’t this nice that there’s this blizzard. Now all those men have work.’ And I knew then that it was not nice that men could work for their lives only in desperate weather, that there was no work for them in fair. That was when I became anti-fascist, at the silky tones of my rich and comfortable aunt."<br /><br />It's amazing how you can vividly visualise this dreadful woman from so little actual cues....Daniel Milford-Cottamhttps://www.facebook.com/danielmilfordcottamnoreply@blogger.com