so in this really weird way, it all came from a book my aunt sent me. she'd gone to see the paul poiret exhibit, and thought i'd have loved it. although i admit i love some of the music and furniture from the jazz age, the clothes had only ever randomly spoke to me. NOT SO AFTER THIS BOOK! at the time i received it in the mail, i was in a serious jane austen phase... i instantly recognized some of the edwardian lines that poiret captured in various designs, and felt myself warm to him. there's also this sense the clothes are wearing the person instead of the other way around, as if to assert their own individual existence. i like that as a concept. i've spent some time thinking about creations out-living their creators....then, i'm parusing netflix, and i came across house of eliott(hoe; isn't that abbreviation funny..). i added it to my REEEEEALLY LONG list and gave not a second thought to it, until it arrived in the mail....i'd been distracted by a fry and laurie tangeant for a decent chunk of change.... after the first three episodes of hoe (i've only got one netflix at a time;pity me), let me introduce you to the main characters as i've deduced them so far.... there are beatrice and evangaline, who we first see after a fight with their father.....what a boor-of-a-man! as we will all find out, and aren't we glad we never had to see him in the first place?!?!?!! both daughters are spunky in their own right, and i like them both for different reasons, as will more than likely come out during my revisiting the story as known so far... then there's arthur and aunt lydia.....aunt lydia is first cousins with "father", and arthur has been named evie's guardian....we dislike these people immensely. you may not know that, but trust me, we do.... then there's penelope madox (i don't know if there are supposed to be multiple a's or d's in that spelling, but i'm sure you can roll with it regardless). she's the one in the broad-brimmed hat and khaki cape. she's a social crusader who befriends evangeline, who herself is in the midst of helping some woman who's passed out in the market. penelope in turn introduces the eliott sisters to her brother jack madox, man of the lense! a well-known-up-and-coming-womanizing-but-kind-in-his-own-rogue-way kinda guy who gives beatrice a job as his receptionist. he calls her nanny, but i'm really digressing into the story now. i've also run outta time....so i'll finish this up tomorrow....most likely