The idea of the "Bloomsbury look" as an identifiable style is well-cemented. It feels like every few years, a fashion designer references them on the catwalk, and magazines follow with shoots of how to "get the look". Porter summarises the "Bloomsbury look" thusly: "It's a loose longline floaty patterned dress, or a cardigan over a blouse that's buttoned up – in can be really librarian, in this demeaning view of librarians!"
Woolf often uses Orlando's changes in clothing to say something about the changing times and gender expectations they live under. A young male Orlando may romp through the countryside or ice skate along the Thames, but the female Orlando in the 18th and 19th Centuries is as hampered by crinolines as she is by the way society suddenly sees her as delicate and enfeebled. Eventually, she embraces androgyny, and starts wearing breeches – just as Woolf's lover, and inspiration for Orlando, Vita Sackville-West was wont to do.
Small businesses are investing large sums, too. Michael Phillips, who owns Phillips Farms in Cary, North Carolina, says its Halloween attractions – including the Field of Lost Souls and ultra-creepy Gore House – usually take $25,000 to $50,000 to mount. He needs 70 or more people to put on the show, which sees 1,500 to 2,000 people come through every night.