Mcgarrybowen comes across as quaintly, touchingly anachronistic, providing ads from a bygone age that still work.

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But there is more to the monthlong frenzy quaintly known as "Fashion Week" than the trends.

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After all, it's divided up into regionals, and, quaintly, regional is really a word borrowed from high-school tournaments.

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Trails are usually well signposted, sometimes with symbols quaintly painted on tree trunks.

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Yet there are those who still, however quaintly, think that politicians are the solution to something more than how to allow second raters to gain power over us.

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The house has also expanded its made-to-measure custom business, offering a wide range of fine leather gloves and cashmere and wool socks (or "hose, " as it quaintly still calls them), silk ties, even boxer shorts.

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Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk.

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