The V&A were right in my opinion in rejecting her clothes. After seeing their Alexander McQueen, Bowie and Westwood shows, a Thatcher show would seem by limited (very few 'iconic' items).
ah the lefties are having a party again, I go away for an hour and the TGL haters who mostly were not even off their mothers breast when she was fixing the nation have another excuse for a vitriol fest. Enjoy popinjays, enjoy.
She wasn't noted for her fashion sense. Her clothes were old fashioned when she wore them. They were not particularly attractive, or iconic. So I see no merit in retaining them for the nation.
The family should sell them privately to collectors, and date th ey to a cause she would have liked.
there are lots of US presidental museums, TTT. (Similar to Chartwell.) If [people want to set up a Thatcher museum, they're welcome to do so, and include all the memorabilia they want - that would be a reasonable way of letting interested parties have a look at it.
I'd no more go to see it than go to a Blair museum; but as a champion of free enterprise, surely that's what she would have wanted?
Mamyalynne, I don't think it's an indication of a throwaway society. It's more about how some people hated Thatcher and her policies.
I'm with them on that, but I don't advocate burning her clothes.
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