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The trilby by Lock & Co. Hatters / VIDEO: HATS AND HAT ETIQUETTE
A trilby is a narrow-brimmed type of hat. The trilby was once viewed as the rich man's favored hat; it is sometimes called the "brown trilby" in Britain and was frequently seen at the horse races. The...
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Sundance 2018: Keira Knightley and the new wave of progressive costume drama...
Daisy Ridley in Ophelia, Rupert Everett in The Happy Prince and Keira Knightley in Colette.Sundance 2018: Keira Knightley and the new wave of progressive costume dramaWith Knightley starring as...
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Handmade: By Royal Appointment 2. John Lobb Shoes BBC Documentary 2016 /...
Six months to make a pair of shoesNeil and Michael explain the craft of last making and why it has kept them at John Lobb for over 30 years."In the shadow of St Jamess Palace is the workshop of...
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Darkest Hour / Appeasement / Churchill , Halifax and Londonderry /...
Winston Churchill makes a fine movie star. If only we had a leader to match him in real life todayThe ObserverBritain’s wartime leader is played by Gary Oldman in the film Darkest Hour, following...
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James Smith & Sons - Hazelwood House, 53 New Oxford Street, London
London's top shops: James Smith & Sons umbrella shopEurope's oldest umbrella shop, this family-run business has served customers, rain or shine, since Victorian times.By Olivia Parker 17 Feb 2012...
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The Umbrella
http://foxumbrellas.com/THE UMBRELLA COMES TO EUROPEhttp://foxumbrellas.com/index.php/company-history/history-of-the-umbrellaApparently the umbrella entered Europe via Greece, Italy and Turkey....
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Swaine Adeney Brigg of London / Royal Umbrellas | euromaxx
Swaine Adeney Brigg of London has been selling umbrellas since 1750,and got its royal warrant from Queen Victoria in 1893. The Brigg brolly achieved international fame when wielded by John Steed in The...
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Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection (BBC4) / VIDEO: The...
BBC FOUR: ART, PASSION & POWER: THE STORY OF THE ROYAL COLLECTIONForty years since the story of the Royal Collection was last told so extensively on television, a four-part series for BBC Four...
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A Stitch in Time / BBC FOUR / VIDEO: A Stitch in Time Episode 01 Charles II
A Stitch in TimeREVIEWby Jane Rackhamhttp://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/f4td2j/a-stitch-in-time--s1-e1-charles-ii/It’s hard to tear your eyes away from fashion historian Amber Butchart because...
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"For He's A Jolly Good Chap"... great photographs by Rose Callahan
These delicious photographs by Rose Callahan of this undoubtedly "Gentleman - Chap", Sean Crowley and his Microcosmos, illustrate a unique philosophy of Life and a Quest for quality ... I wish Rose all...
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The Grand Tour ...Aristocratic Initiation ... Individual Privilege instead of...
The more you know ... the more you see ... This is the only weapon against the collective paranoia of mass consumption that has invaded the modern concept of Tourism ... The old dilemma between "Being"...
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THE GRAND TOUR - Ladies of the Grand Tour by Brian Delan / The Grand Tour by...
`An utterly absorbing account, brilliantly researched and written, of women's lives and travels in the 18th-century.' Katie Hickman According to `The Art of Governing A Wife' (1747), women in Georgian...
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