We’re not too posh to wash, we just lived through the war | Brief Letters

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Vivienne Westwood, like me, although a few years younger, was brought up in the austere 1940s and 50s when hot water was a precious commodity and people bathed once a week. So far from becoming “too posh to wash” (G2, 3 October), she has carried on much the same as many of us of the same vintage.
Marie Paterson
Nuneaton, Warwickshire

• No need to visit Cornwall to see a superb collection of art from St Ives (Letters, 2 October). Head to Orkney instead. While visiting friends, we discovered the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness has a collection to rival the Tate, including Alfred Wallis, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Naum Gabo, Peter Lanyon and Ben Nicholson, alongside Orkney greats such as the sublime Sylvia Wishart. Admission was free.
Robert Wilson
Horsham, West Sussex

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