Wednesday 18^th May 2011

I can see readers haemorrhaging (look at that spelling!) if I meditate on how Wotan is a Poor Little Rich Gay.

You don’t know what I’m talking about, do you?

But he is. You’ll see.

So today is frockage and what you’ve all been aching to know – what was in those shopping bags I laid (temporarily)before Buckingham Palace on the Royal Wedding eve?

I went to Prada in Harrods. Separates, you recall, were my object. That’s jacket and trousers, like a suit, but not matching.

Separates are huge, this season. Sonny Hammond and I got that clear in Rome, while whizzing from Yves St Laurent to Prada on the motorino.

I’d seen something in Rome Prada but they didn’t have it in stone. By miracle, at Harrods it was in stock. In Rome, they’d given me the numbers. Complicated. So I forked. Terrible price but a trouser in a fine skin-like fabric with such seams – the whole suggesting a beautifully-made lizard glove or shoe.

I’d also got that Bath Abbey wedding in mind. The Gay Mother and I are to join the Grandmother’s procession. That’s Aunt Lavinia. I’m to be in separates although ‘invite’ says ‘Lounge suit’. Joshua Baring, who knows everything and can do anything, is looking for some important masculine diamonds for me to wear.

Then I thought of a black summer jacket.Prada offered another miracle for £680. So I went downstairs in Harrods and got, at Topman, a black tuxedo (what they’re calling it) with satin edging, really nicely made for £85. It has trousers, also with edging, for £35. Got them too.

At The Library, Brompton Cross (it’s a frock shop), they had double, slash, slash late, late sale on, so I got a Fabrizio del Carlo knit in white for £100 – investing for the coming winter. Also sister to the champagne cardy, also Fabrizio, brought there in the Jan sale,  which got snagged in the Tudor House AND was touch and go as to washing.

You’ve been longing to hear about that, too.

Yes, you have.

It came through all right. Except the sleeves are quite a bit longer, but when on seem to go back to the right size. Anyway, Val will solve. What that slightly tilting greatness doesn’t know about fabric management….

'Tuxedo' by Topman: Stone Slacks by Prada: What I Bought on The Royal Wedding Eve for the Bath Abbey Wedding in June

The Separates Look: Huge This Summer: 'Tuxedo' by Topman. Note Exquisite Satin Edging. Stone Slacks by Prada: Delerious Price

White Jumper by Fab del Carlo: £100 Late, Late Sale at The Library. Buying In for Next Season, Always Wise and Life-Enhancing

My Champagne Cardy by Fab del Carlo: Sleeves Longer After Washing but Val will Know What to Do