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Refinery29: An Education Teaches Us a Lesson in Posh, Brit Dressing

November 5th, 2009 link to (permalink)

When we saw An Education starring Carey Mulligan, we weren't expecting to get lesson in fashion. Based on a novel by Lynn Barber, the film takes place in England, 1961. Carey plays Jenny, a young British schoolgirl who, stifled by the tedium of adolescence, dreams of a Chanel-scented life.


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