How Sybil Fawlty became an accidental style icon
telegraph.co.ukBasil Fawlty line that is fixed in the national consciousness is, of course: ‘Don’t mention the war…’. But the one I particularly treasure was something he said to the giant moose head that was in the hotel’s reception, in one memorable episode.His wife Sybil – Basil’s "Little Nest of Vipers" to recall one of his many vicious pet names for her - got her sleeve caught on one of the moose’s preposterous antlers, when flouncing off after one of their characteristic spats.
Spats she always came out on top of.Basil leans into the head and says, in his unique tone of evil delight: "Snagged her cardie, did you?"It was brilliant, because an attack on Sybil’s clothes was an assault on her very being.
Sybil Fawlty was never knowingly underdressed – and even though the Fawlty Towers sitcom only ran for 12 episodes, with 44 years since it ended, she remains a vivid style icon.Let us remind ourselves of the Sybil Fawlty look.
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