Episode 39: Scandalous! Beaton & The Bright Young Things

<p>This week, Lucy and Ben explore the life and times of Dress: Fancy’s patron saint, Cecil Beaton. The social upheavals in Europe between the First and Second World Wars created an unsettling mix of expectation and fear. Weary and wealthy, a privileged group of twenty-somethings attempted to turn doubt and despair into delight and delirium. Their antics and fancy dress shenanigans became legendary, but, Beaton apart, their hopes for escape remained tragically unfulfilled.</p> <ul> <li>Follow <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/dressfancypodcast/">@dressfancypodcast on Instagram</a></li> <li>Follow <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/mslucyclayton/">@mslucyclayton on Instagram</a></li> <li>Follow <a href= "https://www.instagram.com/benjamin__wild/">@benjamin__wild on Instagram</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Fashion-Wardrobe-Cecil-Beaton/dp/0500518335"> <em>A Life A Life in Fashion: The Wardrobe of Cecil Beaton</em></a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/cecil-beaton-bright-young-things/exhibition"> Cecil Beaton: Bright Young Things at the National Portrait Gallery</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li> <li><a href= "https://www.waterstones.com/book/cecil-beatons-bright-young-things/robin-muir/9781855147720"> <em>Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things</em>, by Robin Muir</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bright-Young-People-Generation-1918-1940/dp/0099474476"> DJ Taylor, <em>Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation, 1918-1940</em></a> (Vintage, 2008)</li> <li>Patricia Mears & Bruce G, Boyer, <em><a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Elegance-Age-Crisis-Fashions-1930s/dp/0300204205/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Elegance+in+the+Age+of+Crisis&qid=1587630112&s=books&sr=1-1"> Elegance in the Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s</a> </em>(Yale University Press, 2014)</li> </ul>