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As for that mug, our favourite is “ 60 years a Queen” by Emma Bridgewater, available at Liberty.
the silver jubilee, 1977.
If, like me, you are old enough, you will remember how the world sort of stopped for it.
The street parties, the bunting, the Union jacks.
The mounds of sausage rolls, the paper plates of Hartley’ s jelly… will remember, too, the sea of straw hats and the charming pink "acorn cup" the Queen wore on her head for the thanksgiving parade on the way to St louis vuitton replica handbags Cathedral.
I low pretty she looked in her I tardy Amies ensemble with her white handbag.
Flicking through the pages of Vogue's silver jubilee issue brings back what dressing up meant back then.
Pearls, of course, with perhaps a strappy Charles Jourdan sandal, or a Maud Frizon ice-cream-cone heel.
If you were very fashion forward, a suit by Bruce Oldfield.
Maybe a rope-banded hat by Herbert Johnson.
At any rate, a hat.
And gloves.
And flesh-coloured tights, no question, however open-toed the sandal, however free-spirited the wearer, however louis vuitton keepall replica it might be.
Scroll forward 35 years for another legendary British summer - not just the diamond jubilee but the Olympics, too, and all the pomp and circumstance that that will entail-and watch how, as a nation, we will turn out for it.
Times they have changed, rules they have loosened.
"There was an enormous amount of dressing up in that era, " says Bruce Oldfield, for whom the royal wedding in 1981 meant most in terms of formal dressing.
"Women wore things out of the norm, very Louis Vuitton Galliera pm to what they would usually wear.
A last hurrah, if you like.
Nowadays the taste is for proper but flirty - women don't want to look like the mother of the bride.
Then, they very much stiII did.
" Still, any excuse and we're up for it.
Give us something to celebrate - from a royal wedding to a garden fete to a cheese-rolling parade - and pouf! Outcome the shouty florals and stripy prints, the veiled straw hats and the pastel suits.
Why? Who rightly knows.



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