Did you watch the royal wedding? My daughter spent nearly all day in front of a friend\u2019s TV screen. Quite fantastic, all this royalty together. My daughter thought the Queen didn\u2019t look too happy. Nor did her other daughter-in-law. Maybe she was a little jealous? Who should get the most attention? All these beautiful dresses! The Queen\u2019s according to a national newspaper particularly tasteful.<\/p>\n
Aldous and his wife were coming back from somewhere on that day and stopped at some friend\u2019s house to watch the Royal Wedding. An event not to be missed. Colourful, gorgeous, glorious, lovely and loving, enthralling, beautiful music, too, and the Bride elegant and self-possessed, conscious of her duties and patiently, like the rest of the family, waving to the cheering crowds from the Balcony. They knew what they owed the Nation!<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you like the Bride\u2019s dress?\u201d the dentist asked me next day. I told him I did and he approved. Aunt Maisie whom I saw in the afternoon did not: the neckline was too low. She showed me pictures of other royal brides from earlier years. It was true, their dresses went up to their necks. Aunt Maisie shook her head about the immorality of our time.<\/p>\n
I told George and his wife about Bob Somebody, the great fund-raiser, who was knighted recently. He was dressed for the occasion in a suit presented to him by the Royal Tailors and worth \u00a31000. The Queen had paid him a compliment and actually said: \u201cYou look nice.\u201d This had been reported in all the media \u2013 the Head of the State herself confirming the popular proverb that \u201cclothes make the man\u201d. George and his wife weren\u2019t sure whether to laugh or not. \u201cThis is not what he\u2019s been knighted for,\u201d she pointed out to me, visibly impressed by the enormous sums of money he had raised. I must give him he\u2019s good at that. By the way we don\u2019t have a word for \u201cfund-raising\u201d in my language.<\/p>\n
George was looking down my legs and noticed that I had some \u201cpretty sandals\u201d on\u2026 I was glad I could please him.<\/p>\n
New Friend told me that before he actually knew me he had often seen me on the road \u2013 in always the same clothes. Not that it mattered, he said, he was just struck by it.
\nThe children told him that I could look elegant if I wanted to. He readily granted me that and paid me compliments when he saw it. He in fact thanked me for putting on new shoes or a \u201cglamorous\u201d dress or pretty earrings. He liked earrings for girls. He didn\u2019t like girls wearing men\u2019s clothes. It\u2019s nice of people to take notice of one\u2019s clothes and praise them. It is so reassuring. One likes to feel that one looks right.<\/p>\n
Like the Bride on the Royal Wedding. Aldous\u2019 wife gave her comment: she had never seen such a beautiful bride before. So lovely and friendly and relaxed. And her dress. Quite extraordinarily beautiful. I threw in again: clothes make the man. The subject of dresses was dropped. I wonder who looks best without clothes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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