His sartorial philosophy, which stressed comfort above frippery, stemmed from Victorian Dress Reform, also known as Rational or Aesthetic Dress.

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He believes that the capacity to produce art evolved in a way similar to that famous piece of natural frippery, the peacock's tail.

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Somewhere beneath the frippery, there is a whisper of political threat: if the Queen really was as prodigal and heedless as this, no wonder the mobs were on the march.

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But such frippery, too, was in the past.

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