From: J. M. Carruthers, Paul Derrick, Philip Skelsey, Charles King,
K. H. Grose, Dr. Royston Lambert, the Headmaster of Mill Hill School, Christopher Hollis, Brocard Sewell, J. Chiari, E. Ackroyd, Leslie Adrian, Mrs. Patricia McCloskey, T. P. O'Connor.
Postal Disorder
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
which they couldn't go without becoming in- tolerably heavy. Her customers favoured the pastel shades.
Letters which reach the BBC from the nine million viewers of Conte Dancing (thought to be mainly armchair dancers living vicariously) are very often about the dresses; loving inquiries about the intricacies of beading, or requests for a particular pattern to be sent. The dresses them- selves are cult-objects not to be bought in shops, often made at home by a family circle of mothers-in-law, aunts, sisters, cousins, friends, stitching away at countless layers of net or tulle, and finally garnishing the top layer with lace, feathers, sequins, rhinestones, ribbons and roses. But you save on stockings. These are not worn because they would be shredded to pieces on the abrasive net skirts. A lady in lime green and spangles admitted that her dresses had been painful at first, but was happy to say that one's legs soon toughened.
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