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Posted on May 23, 2018May 23, 2018

Spode’s Bloomer(s)

“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone.

Patrick Alfred Buxton. Photograph. Wellcome V0027930
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Posted on May 16, 2018

Stick + Darning Needle + Hot Water Bottle

“It appears that at the girls’ school where Miss Wickham was educated, Jeeves, it used to become necessary from time to time for the right-thinking element of the community to slip it across certain of the baser sort. Do you know what they did, Jeeves?”Continue & Comment

Posted on May 9, 2018

Dressing Like an Amazonian Tree-Frog

Imagine several people gathered around a table during a committee meeting. One woman has very pale skin and has wound a neon yellow-green scarf around her neck. The scarf reflects on her face, tinting it the palest of greens. She looks ill.Continue & Comment

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