Thanks to The Pursuit Of Love, flamboyant toffs are firmly back in fashion
Forget hot priests, this month we’re all about hot peers
20 May 2021 • 3:00pm
In the mood: Lord Merlin, played by Andrew Scott, has Pursuit of Love fans swooning
Credit: Robert Viglasky
Who would have guessed? (Then again, maybe it makes perfect sense after months of being starved of glamour and high jinks) – the aristocracy are now firmly back in fashion.
Granted, there was a flutter of interest around the time of Downton Abbey, but that was as much about Carson as Lady Mary, and you never wanted to go to their parties. What’s piqued our curiosity and electrified our tastebuds are the aristo class as portrayed in the BBC’s adaptation of The Pursuit Of Love: eccentric and decadent, bonkers and beautiful.
There is an argument that laying the table doesn’t need to be complicated. There is also an argument that paying someone else to lay your table is a tad decadent. However, I didn’t grow up in a