I was flipping though the September 1922 issue of Town & Country---ever up on current affairs, the Dilettante---when this demure debutante caught my attention. Understated to the point of plain, who would guess she would one day advise mothers to wash their children's hair in dead champagne, let alone commission for herself a garden in Hell?
Although I am not surprised she would have chosen a thoughtful pose, the choice of dress is interesting.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Dilettante.
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You knew Diana Vreeland's maiden name!!! Wow.
ReplyDeletewow! great picture, and now that i know who it it, it's even better.
ReplyDeletealthough, i must admit, that thing about washing your hair in dead champagne sounds a bit sticky to me.
wow she is very beautiful and pretty look .lovely
ReplyDeleteI have to admit that I only understood who she was (would become!) when I read the post labels - I like the other labels, too :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know what would make a gay post, but I do know there is such a thing as Camp Coffee - I spotted it in the supermarket here a while ago. In fact it is a chicory coffee substitute, something one presumably takes along on a camping trip, a kind of old-fashioned British Nescafe. But the label of the jar is illustrated with a pair of very straight-laced, Victorian-looking Indian Army officers (one wearing a turban if I remember correctly) preparing their Camp Coffee at their campfire ('camp' fire?). Oh the joys of unintended irony!
I like her dress though...
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