Alice Loxton
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770 appearances
11 recordings
7 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Alice Loxton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And this is a lightweight cotton, incredibly beautiful, really delicate, really floaty.
And this is often creating those dresses that you see in in films like Pride and Prejudice.
So the waist lines of women's dresses move from the natural waist up to under the bust.
They call it the Empire line.
And this is because one of the proponents of this style was Empress Josephine.
who was married to Napoleon and he was uh leader of the first French Empire and so that gives us the name Empire and they often call it the Empire silhouette.
They call it the goddess dress, the column dress.
And because of that it really became very popular.
But what is the relevance of this to our story?
Well
This new style does come with a bit of a problem because it's such a kind of flowing fabric that it's actually quite revealing.
Yeah.
Um, quite revealing of any lumps and bumps.
And I'm not just talking about, as they say, tums and bums.
You know, the tie on pocket is what I'm trying to get to here.
That you would be able to see that under that cigarette.
Interesting.
Y yeah, I know.
It's a good question.
You'd have thought they'd been able to do that.
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