Hades! The Ladies!
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Smith, Sacheverell (Foreword). Hades! The Ladies! Being Extracts from the Diary of a Draper Charles Cavers, Esquire Late of Bond Street London, West. First Edition. 1933. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—jacket shows a spot of discoloration to the spine, a minor stain to the front cover, and some fraying.
The humor is dry but delectable in this book about fashionable London in the frenetic 1920s. It is a faux-diary, purportedly written by a draper (dressmaker). The diarist is a dandy. He adores women but only to dress them, and they never veer far from his sentiment, as he opines on a variety of subjects relevant to that era, such as nightclubbing, the Season, raising hemlines, beauty, etc. As to marriage, he laments that the bridal dresses he creates are “more enduring than the blessings of the Church.”
“Fancy dress is a revolution against convention. It is the manifestation of the same spirit which makes men revolutionaries.”
--Hades, The Ladies!
The humor is dry but delectable in this book about fashionable London in the frenetic 1920s. It is a faux-diary, purportedly written by a draper (dressmaker). The diarist is a dandy. He adores women but only to dress them, and they never veer far from his sentiment, as he opines on a variety of subjects relevant to that era, such as nightclubbing, the Season, raising hemlines, beauty, etc. As to marriage, he laments that the bridal dresses he creates are “more enduring than the blessings of the Church.”
“Fancy dress is a revolution against convention. It is the manifestation of the same spirit which makes men revolutionaries.”
--Hades, The Ladies!
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