all inspiration by [personal profile] selkie, cf. her newly completed WWII AU "St. Clair and Fleming Do the Blitz."
"and I wondered, does anyone remember the epilogue of Mary Gentle's Ash books?"

Oh, yes!

A thing I can do trivially out of my own closet is at least semi-convincingly cosplay a canonically eccentric dresser from 1940.

Coincidentally, non-DW friends were just squeeing over these eccentrically stylish dressers: https://mymodernmet.com/gunther-krabbenhoft-britt-kanja-senior-style/?fbclid=IwAR1YsmmN3GJNZBRPALeRCeeBdeRJxMPeQs6N_A-B8KXeKsuumZ9ZxJa9Ol4