Style on Trial is part of a season where the "great" British public will choose their favourite era of style from the Forties through Nineties. I have put inverted commas where sarcasm is intended, since we all know how stupid the GBP can be when it comes to voting for things. [Just look at Tony Blair. Boom boom!].
Anyway, so far so typical. But what's this? There are slightly lacklustre line-ups for the main panel-based programme, presented by Lauren Laverne and Stuart Maconie [now them's two style icons if ever I saw 'em.....yes, sarcasm intended again....], in the Forties and Fifties categories (presumably limited by life expectancy).
Then lo and behold, the Sixties panel includes the awesomely fabulous and debonair Mr John Bates
and the Eighties panel includes the awesomely beautiful and edible Mr John Taylor.
(This photo is dedicated to WendyB and scanned in by the lovely Miss Senti)One intellectual/creative crush, and one lustful/musical.
Only if they had invented time-travel and fetched Ossie Clark for the Seventies edition could I have been more pleased with their choice.
It also throws up the interesting conundrum of how they will approach the whole mini skirt hoopla. The usual Mary Quant nonsense will surely incur the polite disdain of Mr Bates in the studio, so will they actually dare to mention this in one of the footage films which connect the panel discussion? I'm intrigued.....
The Eighties edition will probably find me melted into a puddle, in amongst cooing at the New Romanticism of it all.
Oddly, my own beloved Seventies era is slightly underwhelmingly represented by Zandra Rhodes, Wayne Hemingway and Terry De Havilland. All of whom I think are fab, but none of whom make me go ga-ga.
I'm waiting to see all the programmes before I decide which might be my favourite era. Frankly I love them all, but they all have their drawbacks as well. Do I offer my loyalty to Mr Bates or Mr Taylor? Or do I refrain from making that decision and go with Zandra and Terry? Decisions, decisions.....
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I almost fell off my chair just now!
Wendy! I'm glad it had the desired effect. Although I wouldn't wish you to fall and hurt anything!
That photo may, or may not, have ended up as tiled wallpaper on my computer. Ahem.
Zandra and Terry!!! C'mon! You have to go with that!!! I wish I could watch this- hopefully someone will youtube it.
Hi there-oh too much choice I think!! So hard to narrow down!
I missed it, didn't the show have Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen on the panel?
Laurakitty: I know, I know!! But my true era of choice is late Sixties/early Seventies and I can't vote for that. That's why I find the whole 'decade' thing so limiting. And frankly if John Taylor tells me to do something, I'm going to want to do it. Hence the divided loyalty!
Sharon Rose: I know. As I said above, eras would be easier to choose from than decades.
Ladies Who Lunch: Yes it did have LLB. I have a bit of a crush on him, ever since he sewed his cuffs to a curtain on Changing Rooms many years ago. I think it's the whole Jon Pertwee/Duran Duran frilly shirted dandy thing.
I'm voting for "Team 60s"... unless they happen to have lots of Nick Rhodes pictures, new Romantics and Westwood creations in the 80s. Oh dear. I could be in trouble here. :-(
Glad the pic is being enjoyed so much! :-D I thoroughly enjoyed it when it arrived through my post box and made lots of very giddy squeaking noises that freaked Enty out. It was too gorgeous to sit alone in the book, it had to be circulated immediately!
Ah Laurence, isn't he adorably ruffly and floppy haired?! :-) He's the only person I'd leave my house in the capable hands of, and would expect to return and find he'd painted something very Italianate on my ceilings. When I was at school one of my friends told me on the phone that he'd been awarding prizes at her school speech day or something. I was rather jealous.
Senti!! At least you've only got the two eras to choose between!!
I do find it remarkable that you're torn between Sixties and Eighties now. I bet a year ago you'd never have thought that, would you? ;)
And gosh yes, I'd happily let LLB loose in my very dull flat if I wasn't limited by being a tenant rather than a homeowner. Although I'd leave him strict instructions to make sure it was suitably Biba-esque (my only instruction though). I'm sure he'd have no qualms about doing it .... mmmmm :)
Well obviously late 60s/ early 70s is the best but I'll follow Terry and his wonderful shoes anywhere he wants to take me...
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