![]() ![]() (Turns out, during the first years of their marriage, every time they had sex, Poppy was thinking about how she could not wait to take her hair down, so could Fletch stop messing around and just finish already.) Poppy’s insistence on dressing at the height of fashion – no matter what – also leads to one of the best scenes in the book, when Fletch washes her hair and discovers bits of feathers and glue and tangles in the back. ![]() ![]() So Poppy always looks like a proper Duchess (even though it means she is frequently horrendously overdressed) because she is desperately trying to show Fletch that he married the right girl. Maybe it’s the clothing – we’re solidly in the Georgian period, so the men wear purple velvet and wigs and the women have all the feathers in their hair and lace and ruffles and panniers.įurthermore, James’ characters are deeply interested in fashion, mainly because of what their clothes can convey. Ok, she’s French, but our English duchesses ![]()
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