Brideshead Left Well Alone

"Who wouldn't want fleetingly to evoke a decadent, glamorous era through their dress?"

In this week's Guardian I came across anarticle on the failures of the columnist to emulate the foppish stylings of Sebastian Flyte.



Maybe as a nation it would serve us well to give up our upper class aspirations, but is a little romance for bygone days so very destructive? Besides, this book seemed to me to be little about glamour and all about religion.