This book is set in a bleak, drab future in which clothing is depressingly uniform and erotic interactions between real people are suppressed. Girls in the school system discover a cache of late twentieth century clothes that embody the easy-going and permissive spirit of their age, and they use their find both for entertainment and as a weapon against the repressed repression of those tasked with enforcing the rules. As might be imagined, their activities break many of the taboos on behaviour, and the hypocrisy of many authority figures is exposed. In many ways the book is charming, if a little whimsical in its fabrication of a form of ‘newspeak’, but ultimately it is lightweight, except, presumably those dedicated to the stimulus that erotic clothing can provide. ( )