...just like today's birthday girl, the lover and muse of Florenz Ziegfeld, Miss Anna Held!
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
ooh la la!
ReplyDeleteI can confess here and now, I will never have waistline like hers ever in my life. Jx
DeleteCould she be practising for the final number in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in that last photo, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteA passing resemblance to Terence Stamp, methinks. Jx
DeleteThe umbrella dress is lovely... but good luck taking public transit!
ReplyDeleteIt was a lovely era.
It would be great for maintaining social distance!
DeleteWe certainly would have had a whale of a time - if we were rich and privileged, of course - in the Fin de siècle or Edwardian eras.
Jx
We would have a whale of a time in any era as long as we were rich and privileged
ReplyDeleteI could see you lording it over a Medieval fiefdom. In a wimple. Jx
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