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Both men and women ( of all social classes) seemed to wear more clothes than now! Even at the seaside.
Hats were worn at virtually all times, and gloves too.
Women seemed to have a better shape and posture, and that was probably due to corsets.
People were (mainly) slimmer too.
My Mother had a mink coat kept in the wardrobe, from her first marriage ( one with more money!) but never wore it that I can remember anyway.
All the adults I knew were very polite to each other and always called neighbours Mrs So and So rather than use first names.Apart from family, I never knew my neighbours first names or the parents of my friends either.It was a more buttoned up age ( in every way) some of which was good and others not so good.

I have recorded these so perhaps I shouldn't have read this thread!

trisher yes, I thought furs went into cold storage in the summer months

katie1 I do remember the fashions then, far more elegant than nowadays but probably uncomfortable as women wore corsets.
In fact, living through the Cold War era was, at times, rather nerve-wracking and not always lovely with the threat of nuclear war always casting a dark shadow.
However, on the whole 'we'd never had it so good' ( apparently)

I do find it hard to believe how Timothy Spall has lost so much weight.
His whole face and manner seem almost unrecognisable.
I have read that it is not due to illness, which is great, but also that he was diagnosed maybe 20 years ago with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia.
Sadly my sister in law died early this year just 6 months after her diagnosis of AML

Me too Happiyogi. I wondered how on earth it would all come together but it did. Not that I was bothered I was just enjoying it all as it went along.
Wish there was more of this sort of drama on the Beeb. Beautifully done and no adverts.

I somehow ended up watching the last episode last night, despite my best intentions to watch the series s l o w l y. And now it's over!

Thanks again for the recommendation on here.

Timothy Spall

Timothy So all is an amazing actor. He plays an aristocrat, the type Edward Fox often plays. He smiles in a very sinister way, the more he smiles the more creepy he seems.

Started watching this tonight and love it.The clothes the pace and the beautiful make up the women are wearing.Its lovely to see Keely Hawkes in another series too.

Lemongrove ha ha. I was born in the fifties but have no recollection of fashions etc. Have you good memories ?

Thanks MawBroonsback I have seen photos with women with fur stoles/tippets but never a full fur coat. It is after all held in June and altough a stole might keep off the wind a coat might be too much. Even our DQ wore a stole

In answer to Trisher’s question about furs, I have seen photographs of women (or do I mean ladies?) at Ascot in the mid 30’s with their minks, so I suppose the TV series has got it right.

Yes, thanks, varian, I know they're all on iPlayer now, it's just that real life gets in the way!

Watched the first one and I am loving it. Just one little quibble, would a lady have worn a fur coat to Royal Ascot in June? Didn't ladies put their furs away in the summer? And only tarts and film stars wore them then. My mum and dad went to Ascot in the '50s (not the Royal enclosure) I still remember my mum's outfit. It was a sleeveless dress in cream silk with a darker cream pattern. It had a very full skirt. There was a matching short jacket, very tight fitting with three quarter sleeves and she had a hat with a brim that curved down at the front. My dad of course wore a morning suit.

You don't have to wait. All the other episodes are available now on BBC i-player.

I never found this slow (have seen 2 parts now), as it's so beautifully filmed, there's always something to hold my attention. The story does keep moving, and yet leaves time for us to ponder what might be going on, and who is to be trusted. (Like some others above, I need more pondering time than I used to, and get left behind in some of the faster-paced dramas with garbled dialogue.) I can't wait to get on to the next episode!

I have a serious complaint to make to certain people.
This had escaped my radar until I started reading the thread and I am totally gripped!
I watched episode 1 last night, 2 this morning and fear I will succumb to episode 3 instead of treating my garden furniture with preservative.
Isn’t little Sasha gorgeous ?
Anyway as the house and garden sink under a wave of cobwebs and weeds as I remain glued to BBC I-Player, I hope the guilty people will feel ashamed.

You know who you are ? ? ?

I'm another wallower. I want to watch this as slowly as possible. As someone said in an earlier post we've been force fed too much unsubtle American and violent cop dramas. This is a wonderful change of pace.

I can't watch things like Line of Duty because I don't understand plots. Like things to waft over me and, as merlot said just wallow in the beauty of it.

Yes, an interesting read, Gonegirl

I've never found Poliakoff's dramas slow but maybe that's because I like to spend time drinking in the period detail. A faster pace would mean what has often happened with recent dramas - coming on here to ask what the heck was going on?

katie some of us did live in that era.

Yes, Summer Of Rockets is very well done and engrossing, unlike some of Poliakoff’s work, so slow that I have never bothered watching to the end.

Gonegirl; thanks; interesting read....

I agree katiel. I love the clothes and the men are so handsome in their suits. Poliakoff always has amazing houses for his scenes, and that summer house is wonderful.

I love this series. Keeley Hawes is so beautiful, a true English rose. It would be lovely to live in those days,when everything was at a slow pace, people were polite, the clothes were so elegant. I appreciate not everyone lived like that, but if I could choose an era, it would be that one, providing I was rich

jaxie ?