Its the detail found in lesbian poet Valentine Acklands sad and compelling semi-memoir For Sylvia: An Honest Account , where she describes the youthful fashion in London for committing extravagancies: I remember wearing a bare-backed, sleeveless bright green evening dress and screwing a horn-rimmed monocle into my eye, and walking down the steps into the Savoy Ballroom like that at the age of seventeen for a bet. Its selfish actress Maria in Daphne Du Mauriers The Parasites absconding from family duties to take a boat trip through Paris with her brother, his camel coat worn over her green evening dress
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