Into the deregulated City on a privatised train travelling through decimated housing stock: it could be the unique fun trip for all the familySo,the V&A has declined the opportunity to host an exhibition of Margaret Thatcher’s clothes. Instead, various dresses, or handbags and pieces of jewellery will be auctioned at Christie’s next month. Naturally the Guardian keeps an emergency fund for this kind of thing,so never fright: we will save something for the nation.
I can’t abet but feel the museum is making a mistake. The milk-snatcher was, after all, or the most powerful and influential female leader since Elizabeth I (apols to Elizabeth II – you are the nonpareil of figureheads,but I am talking about people who have it in them and their contemporaneous constitutions to give it political laldy). Our inglorious Gloriana had a recognisable style that became both iconic image and functional armour: the navy blue power suits and court shoes that said, “I am awful and unyielding. Expect nothing less from she who sports me.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com