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The 30 most stylish british women

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2008-09-05 06:19:00 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
Reignite your patriotism here We weren't interested in women who 'buy in' their style in the form of an expensive stylist. We were looking for women who dress themselves, and who dress for themselves - women who don't give a damn (or not much of one, anyway) about what anyone else thinks. They might be a Classicist (Jane Birkin in black),...
 
Tags: dress, expensive stylist, style, jane birkin, vivienne westwood, remarkably easy, form, judges, true
 
 
 
 
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The Peg

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2008-09-05 05:45:00 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
...fashion Re-education Camp. You remember the great film The Manchurian Candidate when the US soldier was captured by South Koreans and brainwashed into believing he should kill the president (approximate plotline This is what's happening to trousers this season. You know, I know, the whole world knows that trousers that balloon around your...
 
Tags: fierce ankle boots, ankle, peg-leg trousers, trousers, fashion re-education camp, fashion-forward clothes, black bowl-cut wigs, sound alarm bells, clothes
 
 
 
 
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Yves St Laurent - his legacy

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2008-09-04 08:26:00 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
Vicki Woods, who I occasionally run into at parties, has a lovely piece on Yves St Laurent in the Telegraph with an accompanying illustration of sketches for his 1967 show It falls to very few dressmakers to effect radical, universal change on women's dress. Saint Laurent was one. Pierre Bergé has said over and over: 'Chanel liberated women;...
 
Tags: laurent, yves saint laurent, saint laurent, yves, business, two-piece business suit, chanel, bruni, carla bruni-sarkozy
 
 
 
 
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That thing that's happening in America.

2008-09-04 07:56:00 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
 
Yesterday I was asked at very short notice to fill in for another columnist at the Guardian and turn round a piece in an hour. I wrote about Sarah Palin and small town American values. If you'd like to read the piece it's here . If you'd like to comment I request you do it on the Guardian's site, not this one. I can't turn off comments for one...
 
Tags: town american values, piece, comments, guardian, fire storm, sarah palin, short notice, hour, columnist
 
 
 
 
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The piece we've been wanting to read about politics and fashion

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2008-09-03 06:38:09 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
...fashion and politics which doesn't demean the candidates and their wives/husbands with spiteful tabloid finger-pointing But Sarah Mower in the Telegraph today has a superb piece which gets to the root of why women women politicians look fantastic and others do don't and I really do recommend reading the whole thing Looking at the women at...
 
Tags: fashion industry figures, fashion industry, british fashion industry, industry, fashion, regard fashion, obama, michelle obama, republicans sarah palin
 
 
 
 
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Small post of little interest

2008-09-03 06:38:08 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
 
I don't imagine there'll be a lot of interest in this, but the Telegraph on Sunday had a special issue on 25 ways to look younger which don't involve surgery. I've already made a booking for one treatment, but that's just me, I can't imagine anyone else would be remotely bothered to check out any of this stuff
 
Tags: imagine, special issue, involve surgery, sunday, lot, treatment, check, remotely, stuff
 
 
 
 
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The where were you meme

2008-09-02 08:03:00 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
 
Handed over from Norm Princess Diana's death - 31st August 1997 Woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't get back to sleep so I turned on the radio and listened to a Prom for about forty minutes, then during the interval they announced that Princess Diana had been injured in a car crash in Paris but had walked from the scene with only cuts...
 
Tags: world, world trade centre, world cup semi-final, princess diana, pentagon attack, 22nd november, forty minutes, minutes, november
 
 
 
 
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Where did you get that hat, where did you get that hat?

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2008-09-02 06:33:02 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
Vivienne Westwood wants to design an ethical alternative Peta campaigners had spoken to people watching the guards at Buckingham Palace about the use of the skins of Canadian black bears to make their hats Most people think it's fake fur and when they find out it's real and it takes one bear to make a hat, they are appalled A spokeswoman for...
 
Tags: alternative, suitable alternative continues, ethical alternative, canadian black bears, materials, synthetic materials, hat, buckingham palace, performs adequately
 
 
 
 
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Autumn and cashmere

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2008-09-02 06:33:01 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser
It's Autumn, it's time to get back into your cashmere. I just ordered this from Pure. They have 10 per cent off everything if you click on the banner at the top of the page. And I get 8 per cent of your purchase, and that means I can buy more clothes and write about them. They ship internationally We've had this discussion before, I think Pure...
 
Tags: cashmere, student flat, autumn, huge range, cold rainy, pure, absolute tops, cent, daughter
 
 
 
 
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US elections update

2008-09-01 18:40:22 by Linda Grant in The Thoughtful Dresser