Sherlock Holmes

What a surprise! Yesterday we went to see the film Sherlock Holmes.  I wanted to see it, but I was expecting to find it ludicrous. Conan Doyle’s famous consulting detective in bare knuckle fights? Mycroft’s brother doing martial arts?  Any fan of the books (or even the previous films) would find it strange at the very least.

Instead I found a really enjoyable film with a Sherlock Holmes who was, though different in many ways from the detective we all know, believable.  Odd, impossibly talented, occasionally dark and strangely vulnerable, whatever you’ve heard, this new Sherlock Holmes is not  Iron Man with a bad English accent. This Sherlock Holmes is new and different, but somehow still the same, and maybe even better, in his own way.

So today when I sat down to look at our next collection of nightgowns, I found myself looking more at the robes. We all know about robes. They have shawl collars, belted waists and they look, to quote my grandmother, like bags tied in the middle. There’s really nothing more to say. But maybe, like the creators of this new Sherlock Holmes, we can take another look and create which is the same, traditional useful, comforting garment, but with a new and different twist. Watch this space!

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