One of the more popular returning features of my former Twitter account (I will only come back if I actually get the virus, for the sympathy) was my gentle monthly mockery of my favourite magazine, Town & Country, which has no idea what year it is at the best of times. This month? This month was truly exceptional. Roll the cover (featuring a strong contender for my future younger difficult French wife):
Okay, let’s just work our way through, shall we? I have nothing to add to this one, I’m just picturing someone inserting it into their vagina for the hell of it:
Justin, I have some bad news for you:
This isn’t a joke, I just thought it was cool:
This is probably not happening:
Feminism coverage:
Environmental coverage:
Just normal stuff:
And then, well. This happened:
Am intrigued to see what May will bring us.
Town & Country's April Issue Was Not Ready For Coronavirus
There’s a historical romance novel (I want to say it’s one of Sarah Maclean’s) where the heroine is invited to a Fancy Dinner Party and, not knowing the rules of society, sees the pineapple centerpiece and asks if it’s for dessert, so of course then the hostess *has* to carve it up and is Very Put Out with our young heroine ever after.
When I first moved to London in 2004, I became a member of the Victoria & Albert Museum. One of the perks is access to the Members’ Room, which used to be behind a mirrored wall in the fourth-floor ceramics gallery and was blissfully quiet and nearly always empty. They had stacks of Country Life magazine, which is a close British equivalent to T&C. Each issue starts with a feature like they like to call ‘Girls in Pearls’, an introduction to a random posh girl, not always titled (gasp), and her accomplishments. They describe it thusly: ‘Arguably the most iconic page in periodical publishing, [this page] has since 1897 graced the first page of the magazine’s editorial content, following the adverts at the beginning.’
It was an interesting crash course in just how insane the British class system continues to be. It’s nice/hilarious the US has its own version.