MulletProof
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Love these WWII issues, justaguy! thank you so much 
.. you end up learning so much just with any article really. That portrait of Priscilla St. George is so pretty and love her writing, detailed but not enough to sound tragic and you can sense her strength even in the innocent way she talks about the amount of inconveniences during the occupation (sounds like she was living in Lisbon and visiting Paris for the weekend so it probably took her at least a week to get there..?). Would love to see the rest of the story. She was 21 when this was published and she divorced at 21 on 'cruelty' grounds, so I wonder if that whole trip was related to that. And totally random but as I read more on her life (grand-niece of Theodore Roosevelt), her son's mistress really set a precedent in the US by getting over $1M from her son for passing on an STD without a warning.. this is in the 70s (so $7M today), the thing you learn! you're welcome, everybody. 
Also love 'Paris Now..'.. so interesting to see this time in history through the seemingly more vapid lens of fashion: 'they do their own marketing [grocery shopping] carrying a roomy bag'.. you can barely fit 3 different veggies in that bag lol, but the whole thing (doing your own shopping + carrying things) must've felt surreal for the American Vogue socialites reading these issues then. I also get a mild 'bikes are chic, look at all these Parisians and Londoners on them'.. they are but there weren't many choices..
.. you end up learning so much just with any article really. That portrait of Priscilla St. George is so pretty and love her writing, detailed but not enough to sound tragic and you can sense her strength even in the innocent way she talks about the amount of inconveniences during the occupation (sounds like she was living in Lisbon and visiting Paris for the weekend so it probably took her at least a week to get there..?). Would love to see the rest of the story. She was 21 when this was published and she divorced at 21 on 'cruelty' grounds, so I wonder if that whole trip was related to that. And totally random but as I read more on her life (grand-niece of Theodore Roosevelt), her son's mistress really set a precedent in the US by getting over $1M from her son for passing on an STD without a warning.. this is in the 70s (so $7M today), the thing you learn! you're welcome, everybody. Also love 'Paris Now..'.. so interesting to see this time in history through the seemingly more vapid lens of fashion: 'they do their own marketing [grocery shopping] carrying a roomy bag'.. you can barely fit 3 different veggies in that bag lol, but the whole thing (doing your own shopping + carrying things) must've felt surreal for the American Vogue socialites reading these issues then. I also get a mild 'bikes are chic, look at all these Parisians and Londoners on them'.. they are but there weren't many choices..
