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  • No blacking up has gone on here???

    I hate fancy dress anyway, but there's nothing pernicious about dressing up as an American Indian and a saucy Pilgrim, surely. I would have thought that appropriation - the adoption of sartorial mores as a way of life - was a very different thing to fancy dress?