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| UPDATED
EVERY FRIDAY
Last Update:
Friday 20th May, 2005 |
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content © New Journal Enterprises, 2005. |
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| The
classy dressers |
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STARTED as a piece of academic research, but it blossomed
into a subject that rings bells with everyone. Clothes and
Class. Irresistible. And in the 1920s and 1930s, the fine
line between lower-middle and upper-middle, was a national
preoccupation.
Take that as a starting-point, and add the eternal truth that
everyone sends out messages with what they wear, and you have
a new slant on the society our grandparents lived in. Fashion,
far from being frivolous, was linked with the changes and
social unrest of Britain between the wars. It was all about,
as Catherine Horwood’s title so aptly says, Keeping
Up Appearances. It was about respectability, aspiration, and
snobbery taken to the realms of high art. |
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| The
man who put the fun into Fagin |
In conversation veteran actor and
the most famous Fagin of them all, Ron Moody, returns again
and again to the theme that underpins his long career.
“It all fell into place for me,” he says, “in
1959 when I went to the Chelsea Arts Ball dressed as a clown.
It was a tramp clown – with a white face but no red
nose – and I found it the most incredible experience
because, all of a sudden, I was unobserved. I became the observer
of everything that was going on but I had a privileged position
outside of all that. The fact of having a white face made
me invisible.” |
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