The time of my life
OH, Nina, what a lot of parties,’ lamented Adam Fenwick-Symes in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies, published in 1930. The Bright Young Things with whom Adam socialised knew how to party, at ‘Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Russian parties, Circus parties, parties where one had to dress as somebody else…’ as Waugh wrote.
Now the pandemic has subsided, it’s official: the party is back—and we don’t just mean the ‘Midnight Orgies at No. 10’, as Waugh described… oh wait, hang on. ‘Carrie does throw a
