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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Te be or not to be... fashionable!

In "Hamlet", when Laertes is taking leave of his family to return to France, Polonius (among other fatherly recommendations) tells him:

"Costly thy habit as your purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man."

A wise fashion advice, as good then as now. For a man of high birth in Elizabethan England being fashionable was no small business, as can be seen in this miniatures by Nicholas Hillier, a self-portrait and portraits of two of his trendy friends.


En "Hamlet", cuando Laertes se despide su familia para volver a Francia, Polonio (entre otras recomendaciones paternales) le dice:

"No gastes en vestir más de lo que posees,
pero viste buenas hechuras. Busca calidad, no ostentación,
puesto que el traje delata a quién lo lleva."

Un sabio consejo sobre moda, tan bueno ahora como entonces. Para un hombre de noble cuna en la Inglaterra isabelina ir a la moda no era pequeña tarea, como se puede ver en estas miniaturas de Nicholas Hillier, un autorretrato y retratos de dos de sus amigos "trendy".