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Clothes-Pegs (1939)

di Susan Scarlett

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"Do you live permanently in yellow evening frocks and court gowns, or have you anything else?" Annabel laughed shakily. "Of course. My own clothes." "Then go and put them on. Lovely ladies who fall over their trains need cocktails to restore them. And that's just what I'm going to take you to have." Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her family's finances. When one of the "mannequins" employed downstairs quits unexpectedly, Tania Petoff, the shop's owner, decides to try lovely Annabel in her place, to the chagrin of her catty fellow models. Annabel's improved status leads to tension in her close-knit family, then (following a wardrobe malfunction) she catches the eye of wealthy Lord David de Bett-and the ire of the dreadful Honourable Octavia Glaye. How things work themselves out is as delicious a bit of frothy fun as one could well imagine. Clothes-Pegs is the first of twelve charming, page-turning romances published under the pseudonym "Susan Scarlett" by none other than beloved children's author and novelist Noel Streatfeild. Out of print for decades, they were rediscovered by Greyladies Books in the early 2010s, and Dean Street Press and Furrowed Middlebrow are delighted now to make all twelve available to a wider audience. "A writer who shows a rich experience in her writing and a charm" Nottingham Journal… (altro)
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Books like this must have been pure catnip to their original audience... imagine it: you're a not-very-well-off teen or twenty-something in the 1930's daydreaming of endless pretty frocks and handsome suitors; the closest you're (probably) going to get to it is a novel like this. And it delivers.

There's a lot to enjoy here, especially if you have a soft spot for a Cinderella-type story. The main character, Annabel, is employed in the workroom of a luxurious house of fashion. One day she is unexpectedly invited to try out as a model to show off clothes to customers. Her three co-models run the gamut from helpful to hateful, and she has a lot to learn about the seemingly easy life of modeling. Then she falls instantly in love with an aristocrat named David de Bett, whose eyes she met across the showroom.

With that initial setup, I thought this book was going to turn out to be complete fantasy/wish fulfillment (and it pretty much is), but what grounds it slightly in reality is Annabel's loving but imperfect home life. Her anxious but plays-it-cool mother, her protective and gruff father, and her kid sister who just wants to break out of poverty and be somebody.

The romance may sit a bit uncomfortably with some modern readers, as Annabel is only 17 (!) and falling in love with an older "superior" man. He's kind, but his education, wealth, and experience in life mean that the power is all on his side, with Annabel in the position of humble, grateful subordinate. Still, she has some strong moments with her family, as well as the girls at work and the catty woman who is competing with her for David's attention.

This was my first book by Susan Scarlett (a pen name of Noel Streatfeild). I'm inclined to give some of the others a try when they're re-released this August by Dean Street Press. When you're in the mood for something warm and light, these would fit the bill. (Side note: I was a bit put off by the odd punctuation at times. The comma usage was pretty distracting, but that may have been a production issue with the page scanning).

Thanks to Dean Street Press for this digital review copy! ( )
  Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
This novel is a charming and delightful romance published in 1939. Annabel, a young woman from a working-class family, unexpectedly gets pulled into the modelling business while sewing in the backroom of a London fashion house. ( )
  mathgirl40 | Feb 5, 2023 |
I do like Noel Streatfeild but I get the feeling that she recycles the same characters or at least types of characters in every book she wrote. In some cases this works better than in others. This was an interesting look at the fashion industry in the 1920s and it was good light fluffy reading so I really can't complain. ( )
  matamgirl | Apr 3, 2013 |
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"Do you live permanently in yellow evening frocks and court gowns, or have you anything else?" Annabel laughed shakily. "Of course. My own clothes." "Then go and put them on. Lovely ladies who fall over their trains need cocktails to restore them. And that's just what I'm going to take you to have." Annabel Brown has taken a job in the sewing room at Bertna's, a high-end dressmaker, to help her family's finances. When one of the "mannequins" employed downstairs quits unexpectedly, Tania Petoff, the shop's owner, decides to try lovely Annabel in her place, to the chagrin of her catty fellow models. Annabel's improved status leads to tension in her close-knit family, then (following a wardrobe malfunction) she catches the eye of wealthy Lord David de Bett-and the ire of the dreadful Honourable Octavia Glaye. How things work themselves out is as delicious a bit of frothy fun as one could well imagine. Clothes-Pegs is the first of twelve charming, page-turning romances published under the pseudonym "Susan Scarlett" by none other than beloved children's author and novelist Noel Streatfeild. Out of print for decades, they were rediscovered by Greyladies Books in the early 2010s, and Dean Street Press and Furrowed Middlebrow are delighted now to make all twelve available to a wider audience. "A writer who shows a rich experience in her writing and a charm" Nottingham Journal

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