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The Bloomsbury Set’s Fashion was Another Way of Breaking with Convention - ArtReview

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A fashion journalist writes about Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and their circle through their clothing choices Roger Fry, The Breakfast Table , 1918. Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums Collections. Courtesy Wikimedia Foundation In The Voyage Out (1915) Virginia Woolf writes: ‘In the streets of London where beauty goes unregarded, eccentricity must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand.’ Fashion journalist Charlie Porter’s new book is about the long blue cloaks. The Bloomsbury members wore them in their own way; th

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