Word: edwardianism
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...Irishmen landed on the Galway coast from a German submarine; they were captured the next day. The result was one of the century's most notorious treason trials. In its mixture of nationalist hate and sexual perversion, it seemed to expose a whole dread, unsuspected side of the Edwardian...
...their salesmanship often reflects this disdain. Auto companies tell of suppliers who refuse business because added orders might "upset stability" of production. And the Economist describes a visit to a British plant in which "you will be taken aside to see the real pride of the firm, some ghastly Edwardian relic which, it is explained, is now miraculously working almost as well as in 1905, except that two men have to be kept constantly at work to redust...
...FAIR LADY. Bountiful as ever, the musical classic by Lerner and Loewe out of G. B. Shaw retains Professor Rex Harrison as the Edwardian phonetics expert who transforms Audrey Hepburn from a cockney flower peddler into a proper Lady...
...FAIR LADY. Bountiful as ever, the musical classic by Lerner and Loewe out of G. B. Shaw retains Professor Rex Harrison as the Edwardian phonetics expert who transforms Audrey Hepburn from a cockney flower peddler into a proper lady...
Actually, much of the Chelsea look is a revival of oldtime fashion ideas from older, more fashionable times. Nostalgia is the order of the day. Edwardian sleeves and bertha collars, ribbons, roses and trailing black velvet are the tricks of the trade. It is their high comic sense, however, that affords the Chelsea group the authority to unearth shades of the past, drop a street-dress hemline down to the ankles, cut a cocktail suit from a Victorian lace tablecloth...