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Zing Tsjeng is a journalist and the author of the Forgotten Women book series, and host of the podcast United Kingdom where she explores British identity. This month to mark London Fashion Week we have been celebrating British style on Who What Wear, from our favourite designers to little-known brands. Here Zing writes about how moving to London from Singapore over a decade ago impacted how she gets dressed and what London style means to her.
The first month I moved to London aged 16, I visited Camden Market and wound up trying on a latex nurse costume. “Look!” I said triumphantly to my uncle, who was chaperoning me around London as a kind of sexagenarian tour guide, yanking aside the changing room curtain of a grotty Camden clothes shop. It was the kind of all-come all-served place that sells army boots to gabber fans, fingerless lace gloves to goths and patchouli incense sticks to hippies. “It fits great!”
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By Thomas Magill
Drag bars have been an integral part of the London gay scene for decades.
They were where the careers began for household names including Lily Savage, who entertained crowds every Sunday at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern in south London.
Series like RuPaul s Drag Race UK have brought the art form to our screens recently too, but the origins of drag go back to the late 16th and early 17th Centuries.
Back then, only men were allowed to tread the boards, so if a play had a female character, it would have been up to the male actors to dress as members of the opposite sex.
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