Flamboyance by Jack Parlett review – a serious study of the spectacular
What does it mean to push the boat out, and can peacocking be more than just a beautiful gesture?A friend’s mother once told me that for a couple of years in the 1980s – as the Conservatives were waging war on the miners and she spent late nights at Marxist-feminist reading groups – she wore an almost daily uniform of jeans and a white T-shirt. On her wedding day she broke with habit and put on a dress she had…
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