Snoopy for Scarlet Shoes

In honour of Easy Living's Cultural Editor, Beatrice Hodgkin, featuring our tie-neck cashmere poncho as top of 'the best Christmas presents for 2010 that'll keep everyone warm, cosy, snug and happy - in style', here's a post about super scarlet.

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Miss Scarlet, resident femme fatale in Cluedo, is young, clever and gorgeous. And she rolls first in the game. Played in the TV-series by Toyah Wilcox, Koo Stark and Jerry Hall in turn, the stepdaughter of Mrs. Peacock has a series of  disastrous affairs, including with Colonel Mustard, great white hunter and colonial imperialist, military man both dignified and dangerous.

In PlayStation's Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, the daring dog takes on World War I ace Manfred Von Richthofen and his scarlet Fokker triplane. The Scarlet Jungle, a weird wilderness on the planet Krypton teeming with moving forests of red and purple flora, is where Superman locates magic medicine to cure the inflicted city of Atlantis, a legendary island which, according to Plato, was the site of a powerful kingdom more than 11,000 years ago before it sank to the bottom of the sea.

In the Superman chronicles, Atlantis is a thriving glass-domed subsea kingdom nestled in the Atlantic Ocean forty fathoms deep, with fabulous streets and glittering towers.  Populated by handsome, muscular men who make even Superman seem ordinary, the undersea realm is ruled by the lovely Queen Paralea.

In winter 1950 Superman thwarted an attempt by power-hungry Hajar, unscrupulous chief advisor to the throne, to overthrow the queen in a bloody coup and set up a tyranny in her undersea realm.  The lovely blonde ruler of Atlantis fell instantly in love with mild-mannered Clark Kent who'd arrived there via bathysphere - accompanied by Lois Lane and oceanographer Professor Hubble - and he only narrowly avoided marriage to the love-struck queen. 

It's winter, so layer up lovely: DKNY turtle neck top and embellished dress, Ocabini cashmere poncho AW10, Ruche flat cap, Alexander McQueen Gilly boot, Bottega Veneta clutch, Wolford tights. 

Snoopy for Scarlet Shoes

Charles Schultz, Snoopy and the Red Baron, 1966 and Andy Warhol Any One for Shoes? circa 1956