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Don’t worry Brooks Newmark: paisley was sexy once...

...200 years ago. Plus: Who sexts, the deadliest borders, and why weather records always seem to be getting broken

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

4 October 2014

9:00 AM

Paisley power

Paisley pyjamas were in the news. While associated with the town in Renfrewshire, whose mills produced the patterns from 1805, what we know as paisley was first popularised in France thanks to its part in the courtship between the power couple of the day: Napoleon and Josephine.
— While stationed in Egypt in 1798 he sent her a shipment of Kashmiri shawls which did not immediately grab her eye.

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