Doesn't appear that the lady looked in a mirror, either.
He told me that Englishwomen as a class ‘lose on their corsets what they make on their clothes,’ and that ‘Satan himself can’t save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.’
Rudyard Kipling, "In the Interests of the Brethren"
He told me that Englishwomen as a class ‘lose on their corsets what they make on their clothes,’ and that ‘Satan himself can’t save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.’
Rudyard Kipling, "In the Interests of the Brethren"
It doesn't do for a clergy wife to look too posh. Really. She looks perfect for her role. West Midlands, is it? Brilliant. You have no idea, unless you have been through it.
Fiona