Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
It does rather suggest that some of your charges there may not be exactly of the brightest, doesn't it? I'm trying to imagine how, during what were presumably hours of preparation devising, acquiring and applying the costume, it wouldn't occur to at least one of them that this sort of thing hasn't been acceptable for about 25 years?
Some ten years ago I attended a chum's 40 birthday party. (Thon Yorkshireman T, you know). It was a fancy dress party. I was quite pleased with my Rhett Butler.

When I walked in and saw him dressed as Samuel L Jackson, with afro wig and boot polish, I almost fainted.