Old Hair News

I completely forgot to blog about this as it happened when I was on a blog-break. Some of you might have noticed something in my Birthday Masquerade pictures … No hedgehog.  In fact, it was quite bouffant in a more Marie Antoinette style, wasn’t it?  Well, that’s because I don’t have enough hair to hedgehog [...]

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Film Costume Love, Part I: The Good Doctor

I can’t believe I forgot to blog about this when I first saw it – clearly I had a lobotmy that week – so here it is now and my gushing about how much I love it: Yep, I said it – I don’t mean her (nothing against Lily Cole, it’s just not her I’m [...]

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Dresses – Books on and the Making of

Wow, I must be a bit psychic (that, or it’s a coincidence, but that’s not so fun, right?) as my new book (The Party Dress) was waiting for me when I got home on Friday. I read it cover to cover that evening and here are my thoughts (having only read it, not tried it [...]

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Hood vs Sheriff – Let the Jousting Commence!

Nottingham is a great place to be when a Robin Hood film is about to come out – May is seeing a host of outlaw-related events, with today’s being a tourney at the Castle.  I was lucky enough to go and check out Robin, his Merry Men (the good Friar being considerably more merry than [...]

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A Historic Night

I’m not sure how much this sort of thing is reported internationally, but in the UK we are rapidly approaching a General Election and last night was a historic night in British politics: the leaders of the three main parties stood up on live television and had a debate, answering questions from the audience.  OK, [...]

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Georgian Period Films

I must have been a good girl in 2009 because I was lucky enough to receive amongst my presents a voucher for HMV, which I trotted out with at the weekend and bought a couple of Georgian films I hadn’t yet seen … As I had the flat to myself on Sunday night, I had [...]

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