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Carolyn Hitt: Curler and car trouble at Dylan Thomas Prize

05.12.11

THE Dylan Thomas Prize is one of the more glamorous and cerebral events in the Welsh social calendar… so it was rather mortifying to enter the champagne reception last week with a curler still attached to the back of my head.

That’s the trouble with those straight-from-work dos. There’s not much time for grooming. And as we endured a monsoon last Wednesday I was suffering the mother of all bad hair days on entering the car in Cardiff. But I had a cunning plan. By the time I got to Swansea, all would be well, having aqua-planed down the M4 sporting a full head of rollers.

And Operation Hair Rescue might just have worked if I’d remembered to remove all of them. Instead I arrived at this posh function channelling my inner Hilda Ogden. Having swiftly whipped the pink Velcro tube into my handbag – scanning the room for potential witnesses to social suicide – another wardrobe malfunction loomed.

It was Black Tie. Yikes. No-one told me it was Black Tie. I thought it was Corporate Smart Casual. Beautiful Bard Mererid Hopwood sparkled near the bubbly bar in a stunning black velvet and gold number. Daily Telegraph columnist and novelist Allison Pearson sashayed through the Welsh literati in vertiginous heels that would have graced Sarah Jessica Parker – star of the film adaptation of Pearson’s book I Don’t Know How She Does It.

Source: WalesOnline