Jul 8, 2021
I am working through a small collection of cuties like this babe right here. I wish I was better at sewing because 10 outta 10 would absolutely wear this outfit. Dutch cap and all.
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I am working through a small collection of cuties like this babe right here. I wish I was better at sewing because 10 outta 10 would absolutely wear this outfit. Dutch cap and all.
Publicity portrait of the dancer Irene Castle wearing the lace Dutch cap Vernon bought her in Brussels in 1912.
Contraception and me!
As far as sprog-stopping contrivances are concerned, I’ve tried them all – and am heartily relieved, at the age of fifty-nine, to be as barren as a mule (and just about as stubborn – but that’s another story!), having slipped through the ineptly named menopause (‘Pause’?! It’s not as if the buggering thing comes back again, you know!) my first summer in Crete (to be precise)…
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Sunny warm day by the sea. Temp. +8° C, wind: 4 m/s. 2015 - 04 - 08.
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The first photo, a Dutch cap from 1914-17 (and posted by OMG That Dress, but tumblr won't let me reblog it and add the other pics so I give credit here) from FIDM reminded me where the Dutch cap fashion craze started. In 1912 Vernon Castle bought a lace Dutch cap for Irene while he was in Brussels. Though he had been successfully working on Broadway, when he and Irene teamed up things did not go well at first. It took a trip to Paris and work in a Parisienne nightclub for their career as a team to take off. Back in America their success was great, and Irene's first taste of sartorial fame came with the Dutch cap. It became very popular and Irene wore one for several years in her act. In 1939, when Fred and Ginger made "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle", Irene served as a consultant and made sure her famous gowns were copied exactly, as was the Dutch cap!