The worst fashion disasters in fiction
BBCThe worst fashion disasters in fiction Kerry Brown/ Netflix In life and in fiction, what outfit we wear to a social gathering can make us feel empowered – or ashamed. Later on when everyone else has finally changed, she deems another party-goer's white dress "quite horrid" for being "straight as a pinafore". Like Aroon, Mabel is delighted at the prospect of an upcoming party, commissioning a dress inspired by "an old fashion book of her mother's" that makes her feel "an extraordinary bliss" when first tried on. This joy is short-lived though, curdled by shame and confusion when she makes her grand entrance down the stairs, and is faced by "a long silence" from the gathered guests – and icy fury from her husband who thinks she has mimicked his first wife deliberately and appeared as Rebecca's ghost. In Alexander Chee's novel Queen of the Night, fictional 19th-Century opera singer Lilliet Berne enters a Parisian ball in a "creation of pink taffeta and gold silk".
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