...like today's birthday girl, star of the Folies Bergère, notorious courtesan and lover of Natalie Barney Liane de Pougy, later Princess Ghika!
Now, there's a girl who took the gentle art of screwing her way to the top very seriously indeed...
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."
"Saloniste"... there's a word you don't hear everyday to describe someone.
ReplyDeleteWe should campaign to revive it! Jx
DeleteI know how you feel
ReplyDeleteI’m wearing elastic and waists
I suppose a corset is a bit much when you're just binge-watching a box set of 30 Rock... Jx
DeleteOh, dear, look at the state of her! I wouldn't even stagger down to the village shop in any of those outfits. She might as well be wearing threadbare leggings and a baggy, stained t-shirt. And she couldn't even be bothered with colour!
ReplyDeleteI know! Shockingly drab... Jx
DeleteAnd she looks like butter wouldn't melt. Strumpet !
ReplyDelete"Butter wouldn't melt"?! Not at the top end, anyhow. Jx
DeleteNot to be crude (have you met me?), butI prefer men who screw their 'way' to the 'bottom.'
ReplyDeleteAh, but do you get lavished with furs and diamonds and big hats in return? Liane became a Princess for her trouble, ffs! Jx
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