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the jacket we presented a few days ago with some other clothing items:
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Jane Eyre I
Pages from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë by AceOneHundredandEighteen
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Emily Brontë "Souls Are Same" Mini Slip On Shoes
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Bronte Hand-knitted Riding Jacket
Hand-knitted and Hand-loomed 100% Irish Kilcarra Wool Tweed. A Riding Jacket that is slightly felted to give the firmness of a vintage strong wool coat. Designed to flatter the waist and shoulders with the peplum flairing into a divine skirt. Can be worn at all times because of it's softness and comfort yet retaining the most stylish shape. You will always look special and feel beautiful in this jacket.
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But if your credit card knows no limits, you may want to take a look at the redheart 2009/10 Winter Collection:
Oh my giddy aunt....
ReplyDelete(Is it even worth mentioning that the Brontes weren't known as horsewomen? Could they even ride? Alas, no, it won't stop 'em... watch out for Bronte bridles and nose-bags, coming soon!)
I do apologise if I sound cynical, but with Brontë Taxis, Brontë Caravan park (both in Haworth so perhaps not toooo excruciating) we have Brontë biscuits (why? what is particularly comforting and biscuity about them?) and then in Sheffield the other week I noticed Brontë water. You know, those big blue bottles for watercoolers. What exactly is Brontë about that? Do they all contain traces of typhus from the contaminated wells of Victorian Haworth?
ReplyDeleteBrontë branding seems to know no bounds!
(besides which, you have to feel for Emily - what a ghastly view she'll get from down there!)
Richard Wilcocks, from the Brontë Parsonage Blog, suggested a few years ago that these companies contribute a little something from their earnings to the Brontë Society and sent them kind letters inviting them to. I don't suppose it was a big success, except for the odd one seeing his point.
ReplyDeleteAnd I think it was Lucasta Miller in The Brontë Myth who also commented on this trend in general and on the irony of Brontë water in particular, like you have just done. It really is remarkable.
Oh, how I laughed at your 'ghastly view' remark. Poor Emily indeed!
Yes, absolutely, they really should donate something to the Brontë Society! Or at least, a literary charity (erm... if there is one) or a charity local to Haworth. Not just keep ripping off the Brontës because they're out of copyright!
ReplyDeleteI'm re-reading that at the moment - the photo of the Brontë stuff, including "Emily Brontë drawer fragrance" is so tragic! I mean, a teatowel I can see as a souvenir from Haworth (I've got a Haworth station fridge magnet, but then I do like kitsch!), but what is fragrant about Emily in particular? Something to do with the moors, I suppose? I think the water company she refers to is different from the one I saw, which means, yes, there are two of them!
It's so inappropriate, having paens to love written all over your shoes! It takes postmodern juxtaposition to such an extent that it looks more like something dreamt up merely for the purposes of satire than an actual shoe that someone could actually wear.
(and they're not very good for moor-walking either - next week someone'll produce a Brontë hiking boot, available in heather purple).
PS: would be more amusing if it was "Soles Are Same".
ReplyDeleteThe fact they can't even get the quote right says volumes...