Pinkcoke
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to tell the whole story; I was browsing books in a second hand shop when I saw the cover of Margaret Atwoods' The Blind Assassin: (published in 2000, story within a story set in the 1930s)
The dress pictured is very similar to an unlabelled one I bought about 6 months ago, and just knew was 1930's but had nothing to say so, I also wondered if the arm triangles were meant to fold down or stand up and now I know! Mine is black velvet and not backless (I wonder would this place it earlier or later than the one above?), it has larger white silk triangles, also folded over, at the front and back around a square neckline, as well as on the sleeves. Intrigued as to where the cover came from, I discovered it is mostly unattributed, but this very helpful interview with the author tells all. Of course, they got it from an image archive, but it was actually a portrait painting of a lady called Clara Voorhees featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post 13 Oct 1934 by Charles W Dennis.
It turns out Clara modelled for Charles Dennis for several SEP cover paintings and at one point they were engaged to be married. Apparantly it didn't conclude however, as this discussion thread suggests, where the daughter of Charles Dennis, and granddaughter of Clara Vorhees have found each other in their seperate quests for research!
Finally I come round to the point, there is apparantly a small article in said magazine about the model, so should anybody happen to have a copy, I would very much like to read that part!
The dress pictured is very similar to an unlabelled one I bought about 6 months ago, and just knew was 1930's but had nothing to say so, I also wondered if the arm triangles were meant to fold down or stand up and now I know! Mine is black velvet and not backless (I wonder would this place it earlier or later than the one above?), it has larger white silk triangles, also folded over, at the front and back around a square neckline, as well as on the sleeves. Intrigued as to where the cover came from, I discovered it is mostly unattributed, but this very helpful interview with the author tells all. Of course, they got it from an image archive, but it was actually a portrait painting of a lady called Clara Voorhees featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post 13 Oct 1934 by Charles W Dennis.
It turns out Clara modelled for Charles Dennis for several SEP cover paintings and at one point they were engaged to be married. Apparantly it didn't conclude however, as this discussion thread suggests, where the daughter of Charles Dennis, and granddaughter of Clara Vorhees have found each other in their seperate quests for research!
Finally I come round to the point, there is apparantly a small article in said magazine about the model, so should anybody happen to have a copy, I would very much like to read that part!
Macbeth is hardly ever produced because it requires a large chorus - fortunately our group is known for this so it's going to be an exciting performance.
