tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post4348273354079429556..comments2024-03-28T09:33:29.705+00:00Comments on Clothes In Books: Chinese Robes - good or bad? Part 2Clothes In Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-15824341276798440472012-07-11T21:11:12.520+01:002012-07-11T21:11:12.520+01:00Thanks - I think you're right on both counts! ...Thanks - I think you're right on both counts! I think Waugh would have hated the modern world, but not for quite the reasons he thought he would - he certainly didn't correctly predict what would happen to those houses.<br /><br />And I shall certainly go chasing up Maugham - I LOVE that book, and I think you may be right. If it's not that, then another of his. They were quite a feature of books of that era...Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-11142733081343638132012-07-11T16:16:50.270+01:002012-07-11T16:16:50.270+01:00I enjoyed Brideshead Revisited too, which I read w...I enjoyed Brideshead Revisited too, which I read when I read all those penguin editions of Waugh....my dim memory is that he was wrong about the ruination of the stately homes which in the event (in many cases) were saved by opening them to the public. (Rather infra dig, perhaps!)<br /><br />I may be misremembering, but doesn't a chinese robe feature in W. Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil? Maugham seems to me to be an author who must have written about a woman wearing one in at least one book!Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.com