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Friday, March 27, 2009

Diva Paraphernalia: Necessary Accessories

Another Fabulon inspiration: lorgnettes!

As wielded by a startling variety of great ladies:

Miss Callas, staring down an upstart who might actually be trying to give her direction;

Couturière Valentina, either trying to suss out the details of a somewhat-too-distant hemline or checking what mischief her husband is getting up to with Miss Garbo;

And last, but never least, the vivacious Miss Beatrice Lillie, deploying for comic effect what actually might be a rather useful thing: the lorgnette-six shooter.

Along with reticules, dress clips, and lipstick-covers, lorgnettes are among the most critically threatened entries on the Endangered Accessories List. Won't you do what you can to bring them back?