The Clothes on our Backs: How Refugees from Nazism Revitalised the British Fashion Trade

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I’m sure this won’t always be easy. There will still be pangs of guilt and feelings of remorse that will surface each time we opt to pass something on that is “still perfectly good” or for which we spent “good money.” But life isn’t just about saving money, getting a “great deal,” or mitigating our mistakes. Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours. The strategy I adopted with these now is to learn something from these mistakes and think about them when I’m about to buy something new. So I assess this “mistake” this way: I often talk about the irony of saving something for best. For my generation, bought up by parents who had been through the Second World War, thriftiness was second nature. Not only that but you made an effort to dress up to go out and made an occasion of something. Life is to be enjoyed, cherished, and experienced. After all, we are given no guarantees. While many of us will grace this earth for eighty, ninety, or even more years, some of us won’t be blessed with so much time. I’m not assured that I will reach 49 and I’m definitely not promised decent health (I already struggle a lot there) with which to fully embrace my life.However I agree with you (and Bridgette) that there is no reason to torture ourselves by wearing something that isn’t working out. We already wasted money on it, no reason to waste time and closet space any longer. When you think about how fast fashion has sped up,” says Aja Barber, author of Consumed: the need for collective change: colonialism, climate change, and consumerism, “if you think about the popularity of social media, there’s a huge connection there. I don’t remember being encouraged to spend and buy the way that teenagers are spending and buying today, because social media didn’t exist.”

Is the speaker, Harry’s uncle, talking only about clothes, or saying “you live in comfort with basic needs for life”? I didn’t see no di’monds, and I told Tom Sawyer so. He said there was loads of them there, anyway; and he said there was A-rabs there, too, and elephants and things. I said, why couldn’t we see them, them? He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called “Don Quixote,” I would know without asking.This paragraph from the novel sums up for me how Linda Grant used clothes in this novel as an allegory of personalities. Among the many other refugees who made their mark in Britain were the founders of Silhouette, two German families who made underwear. The Silhouette story includes a radioactive corset, the fabulously successful ‘Little X’ girdle and a Silhouette musical. Linda Grant was born in Liverpool on 15 February 1951, the child of Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. She was educated at the Belvedere School (GDST), read English at the University of York, completed an M.A. in English at MacMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and did further post-graduate studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, where she lived from 1977 to 1984.