AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT: I FIND IT HARDER AND HARDER EVERY DAY TO LIVE UP TO MY BLUE CHINA
1."The lady's fashion sense was just as singular as her maquillage."
Just say it out loud maquillage. No one says maquillage anymore, which in itself is a travesty.
2."My only disappointment in this bohemian, vaguely Swedish-meets-French-country tableau is the couple's utterly conventional decision to marry in a church rather than in a country meadow."
This person really, really gets it.
3."If you are under the sunny side of 60, it is unlikely that you know much if anything about Dorinda Prest Dixon Ryan (1928-2007). Which honestly, however, is no excuse for ignorance, if you possess the slightest interest in style and the people who have it, make it or influence it."
As esoteric a choice as Picayunes.
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008
Three reasons to fall in love
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3 comments:
Wow... you always come up with the most interesting things.
Hear that there's lots of flooding up in my old stomping grounds of Tewkesbury... hope you're staying dry.
Wish I could write like that.... thanks for pointing me in the AL's direction.
I sometimes wish that these essays could be collected and published in a slim volume or two. I would make endless reference to them. Fancy a post as editor?
Fairfax - Can't take credit for the original post, that was all An Aesthete's Lament. I merely fell in love with it. Ha!
Thankfully we are on the other side - where there will undoubtedly will be hose pipe bans in the summer. No wonder England is the home of irony.
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