Other famous people who wore cloaks apart from Charlotte's friend G: - DOCTOR WHO (third incarnation innit) - Dracula (I once read a rubbish COMIC poss in BUNTY about a mysterious Dr. Ula who appeared in a small country village and then oh noes!! all this patients started dying. Blah blah some stuff, and then he dies for some reason, and the one girl who felt sorry the lonely doctor visits his gravestone to find out it reads DR. A.C ULA! Spooky eh) - Dumbledore from Harry Potter (possibly all the other wizardly little tykes too, I dunno) NOT Batfink, because he had WINGS of steel, not CLOAKS of steel. Come now. I support this Belle & Sebastian cloak wearing initiative. However, did not the OBSERVER FASHION RAG (end times alert #32498573297) state that it is actually "cloak/coat hybrids" that are de rigeur this season? I dunno, I only have two coats. One is grey and enormous, and the other is ummm, "camel" colour. It either makes me look cool and sophisticated or a bit like Arthur Daley. I have been practising saying 'goh-uh new moh-ur' in my best glottal stopped cockney accent just in case. Kind regards, Sarah

-----Original Message----- From: owner-sinister@missprint.org [mailto:owner-sinister@missprint.org] On Behalf Of Charlotte Pache Sent: 03 November 2005 09:44 To: sinister@missprint.org Subject: Sinister: Cloaking device

*Extreme shallowness alert!*

A rapid scan of recent emails I missed reveals a proved-to-be-controversial mail from Stuart asking for Sinister extras. My eye was caught by this line: "How about the odd cloak?"

Well, exactly: how about the Odd Cloak? Clearly someone must have it somewhere in the back of their wardrobe.

Stuart may, or may not (and I suspect the latter) be aware that cloaks are *everywhere* in the shops this season (yes, even in Hong Kong where it could hardly be described as cloak weather even now).

Cloak is one of those words which, repeated to the point of nausea, becomes meaningless.

My friend G, always a sartorial pioneer, used to sweep down the streets of Edinburgh in her cloak long before Alexander McQueen made them de rigeur again (and if you don't believe me, check out the fetching green one in his A/W 2005 collection here: http://www.alexandermcqueen.com - perhaps not quite the look that Stuart had in mind?) - oblivious to the dogs barking, old ladies choking and children crying in her wake.

Charlotte

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