She has all her clothes made up for her by top couturiers, to her own design. It was too funny, I must ring him up and ask if I might borrow it." It was black velvet, embroidered all over and trimmed with yards and yards of pink feathers. Danny La Rue, who is a great showman, was on television the other night wearing a dress that I thought was absolutely me. I have to be vaguely dignified because I'm old and rather social, but at the same time I have to be theatrical. Barbara Cartland said she felt quite limp at the thought of all those pink clones dancing before her eyes. When you are hailed as the queen of romance and expected to appear before an audience of 750 people all wearing the very same Cartland pink at 9.30 in the morning it can be a very trying experience. She has tried wearing other colours last year she took to mauves and purples but when the hundredth reporter described her as wearing the "usual Cartland pink," she gave up mauve and went back to pink. Her own favourite, "Cartland" pink, is a strong coral pink which she alternates with a deep aqua blue. Even Englishmen, who are really very romantic deep down." Who can be happy and pretty in grey? It affects men, too, although they won't admit it. It's terribly important to their emotional state. "Women should surround themselves with positive colours. Strong people like strong colour, beige people like beige, and no Englishwoman should wear beige or brown because it makes them look like a baked potato. "They make you feel romantic, they give you emotions and are therefore absolutely essential to women." The Cartland theory of dressing for love starts with colour. Who on earth wants to read about the cockroaches in the kitchen? People want romance and happy endings it brings them comfort." When she is tired and upset she reads herself.Ĭlothes to her are like her books. "Now of course everybody's copied me but at the time I was the only person who stuck to my guns and went on with my lovely stories of beauty and love. She didn't want me, but she had to have me. I was the only person left with 150 virgins lying around. Morals went so low that when Jean Rook of the Daily Express wanted to revive romance and purity she had to come to me. "It can't get any uglier, it's like the obsession with pornography. But despite her gloomy and uncompromising view of the present (all pop stars are illiterate, all young people are drug-crazed fiends, nobody has any manners), she is perceptive and extremely witty both about the present and her place in it. In fact, Barbara Cartland finds today a thoroughly ugly and unprepossessing place. We talked about fashion today ("perfectly hideous"), morals today ("perfectly awful") and people today ("perfectly uninspiring").
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