sydneyflapper:stalinwasabasicbitch:dollmixture:American actress Claire Luce with a gaggle of boudoir
sydneyflapper:stalinwasabasicbitch:dollmixture:American actress Claire Luce with a gaggle of boudoir dolls, 1920sSydneyflapper, I have to thank you for introducing me to boudoir dolls. I was recently reading Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune and the author commented on this photograph of Huguette (with boudoir doll in hand): “Huguette’s attachment to her dolls was indeed unusual. A photograph survives of a Clark dinner party in a restaurant, with a group including Anna and Huguette, who looks to be about sixteen, so this would be about 1922. Next to one of the men in the photo is Huguette, wearing a party dress and a strand of pearls, her eyes fixed on something in the distance. In her lap, she holds a doll with well-coiffed coal-black hair, wearing its own party dress.”It may not have been so ‘unusual’ had the author known about the fashion for boudoir dolls out and about! Thank you for giving me that info :) What a fabulous image - the Huguette Clark book is on my reading list. And you’re right - it does seem less odd to see one in this context if one knows that they often had a “mascot” status and weren’t made for children. I had a chuckle when I saw the image of Claire Luce with her dolls - if I didn’t keep my Boudoir Doll fascination sternly in check and limited to handful of them, I’d wind up buried like her. Looks like there are some nice silk faces in the bunch…possibly even Lencis? -- source link
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