WHEN LEGS WERE LIMBS
Lady Duff Gordon says iv her "Discretions and Indiscretions" that when she and her child were- deserted by her. -first -husband' "she ' Supported' -herself by making dresses for her friends with her own hands. "I was the first' dressmaker," sho sayjf, .''tor bring joyian'd; romance into clothes." She adds: I loosed upon a startled London, a London of flannel undorclothes, woollen stockings, and. voluminous petticoats, a cascade of chiffons, of draperies as lovely asT those' of ' Ancient Greece. .. ... If. I never did anything clso in .my "life .1 showed, the I world that a woman's leg can be a thing of beauty,.instead of a "limb" (in1 tho correct parlance of those days),"which was only spoken- of in the privacy of the fitting-room. I. <lon.'t think that I sproad a cult of "immoral dressing," a. charge which somo of the'old. dowagers accused mo ifj'but I did get rid of a lot of false modesty.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 19
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157WHEN LEGS WERE LIMBS Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1932, Page 19
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