We don't hear as much as you might expect about parental reprimands for the various adventures that the Marlows get up to, and sometimes there seems to be rather an over-reaction to more minor incidents, like Mrs Marlow's anger over the Changear incident in Attic Term. I'm rather touched by the implication that the Marlow parents' marriage is still rather a passionate one, to the point of irresponsibility (an odd detail to put in a book aimed at a market who are still presumably of the age group for whom people of one's parents' age* being romantic is unmitigatedly horrifying, but maybe it flies below the radar for just that reason.)
my sense always is she did
Mine too, or that she doesn't do anything much to counter it, anyway. The semiotics of bright clothes are actually interesting, aren't they--very much associated with vulgarity and even worse (with the exception of the contents of the Chest, perhaps, and the baffling unvisualisable gift garments in Run Away Home).
*exactly what that age is I'm not sure Forest had worked out in Traitor, though in RMF they're revealed as quite distinctly young: Captain Marlow is 48, and his wife presumably somewhat younger, given her account of being engaged at 18.
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Date: 2014-06-23 11:19 am (UTC)my sense always is she did
Mine too, or that she doesn't do anything much to counter it, anyway. The semiotics of bright clothes are actually interesting, aren't they--very much associated with vulgarity and even worse (with the exception of the contents of the Chest, perhaps, and the baffling unvisualisable gift garments in Run Away Home).
*exactly what that age is I'm not sure Forest had worked out in Traitor, though in RMF they're revealed as quite distinctly young: Captain Marlow is 48, and his wife presumably somewhat younger, given her account of being engaged at 18.