bams & ted

Overview

"You're to come away at once, out of danger. I've got a motor-car and a basket of strawberries and a bottle of Château Peyraguey — which isn't a wine you've ever tasted, so don't pretend. It's heaven with strawberries." Lord Sebastian Flyte also has loads of charm and country-house, smart London and Oxford clothes, which he wears lazily, rumpled and unselfconscious in his "epicene beauty".

With the sense of both obviousness and frivolity in his dress, he makes a most wonderful subject for dress-ups — something about which bams & ted know no little amount. This peripatetic dress-up party and pop-up vintage store have been running character-themed events at spaces with character over this year, decorating the venue and visitors in period and personal styles.

They are now turning their hand to Sebastian (from Evelyn Waugh's classic Brideshead Revisited) — a lovely figure of well-mannered pleasure-seeking and a sad one of escapism from the pressures of 1920s British aristocracy. This figure is draped in bespoke tweeds, "postbox-red pyjamas", pink hunting jackets and white flannels, and is more than lissom enough for these to be laid out for the ladies.

The opening night party is from 6 to 9pm on June 3. Consult Locksmith or "Aloysius,  that pompous old bear", for subsequent opening hours.