Miss Austen breaks her long silence

My dearest Jane,
It has been nigh on two years (!) since my last Fashion report, yet fear not that the absurdities have abated. Only last week I espied a young woman at 8 o'clock in the morning wearing the full regalia of a Lady of the Night.

She wore stilletto-heeled knee boots, an astonishingly short and tight skirt and a cropped faux leopardskin jacket: a classic ensemble of its kind.

And given that the young woman was making her way towards King's Cross (a well-known district of dubious virtue), tis indeed possible that her attire was, in fact, appropriate to her Profession.