I will watch this film when it is available "On Demand".

I still have yet to see this film but I saw it was all over the Golden Globe awards last night.  It's alright to get excited about jacket and tie clothes in films or period films but there is no real growth without appreciating wardrobes from a lot of other films. Part of the reason many men on the MBs dress poorly is they reinforce their own narrow views and aspirations about style which creates a a form of sartorial senility.

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Of course the sonofabitch then proceeded - whilst in the Bahamas - to engage in black market currency trading - scarcely disguised. That was of course when not in NYC visiting his tailor.

Duke of Windsor

The Black Shirt in Britain

The Meanings and Functions of Political Uniform

http://www.philipcoupland.com/article---the-black-shirt-in-britain.php

Some great illustrations here in this paper.

There were also Spode's 'Black Shorts' a reference which, by itself alone, should have made the Daily Mirror's Casandra (and Duff Cooper come to that) think again over P G Wodehouse's purpose in broadcasting over the Nazi wireless.

I've seen this now: good locations and sets; workmanlike, rather than great, acting (as might be expected, as a minimum, from the actors) but Colin Firth, although he catches Geo VI's voice, bears not the slightest resemblance to the king.  One assumes that the naval uniform and decorations that he wore towards the end were correctly researched but most of the costume was pathetic: ill chosen and ill-fitting and Firth's over-sized and ill-sculpted, black felt top hat was appalling - there are still enough good sources of silk toppers to avoid this type of clanger. The exception to the wash-out wardrobe was the wardrobe for Lionel Logue, which I thought captured the probable style of the man in the time.

The NY Times gave the film a corruscating and nasty review and laid into Geo VI too: it increasingly seems to me that some Americans do not miss a beat to strike out at the British. I'd say it's a good film but not a great one and the end, comprising the king's struggle successfully to read out a fairly straight-forward speech written by speech-writers, was tremendously anti-climactic to the point of damp-squibism.

I did say 'some Americans'. It's nice to know that Anglophilia is on the up in God's new country.

Specifically on propaganda point: Book II was published, a little late, on 9th Feb.

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