those Mitford Sisters & their dogs

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Deborah, at l. with her greyhound Studley & dachshund Jacob with sister, Jessica with Nancy's French bulldogs, Dominic & Lottie. Nancy (the Hon. Mrs Peter Rodd).

images from The Thirties In Vogue by Carolyn Hall,
fellow blogger & Mitford admirer LUCINDA has done several of "THOSE MITFORD GIRLS"-  read them HERE

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Diana the Huntress

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the Mitford sisters are forever popping up on some of my favourite blogs.
I love it!
just a day ago Lucindaville posted the William Acton portraits of the SIX MITFORD sisters. Can you match the 6 to their portraits? Read more about the MITFORDS at Lucinda- and help sort through the portraits- I promised to show Diana's Acton portrait in full for Lucinda this weekend. Another post from Megan Wilson's My Book Covers features five gorgeous portraits of Nancy Mitford on the covers of Mitford's own novels.

Diana the Huntress

William Acton

cover of Diana Mitford Mosley's autobiography A LIFE IN CONTRASTS from Amazon Japan

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Listen Up-chatting with the Lady & the Duchess

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What a mutually beneficial friendship this must have been. Elsie taking on the Duchess- considered a style and social mentor for Wallis-the ultimate power couple.

Friends. I do love the idea that Wallis and Elsie were friends. I can just imagine the conversations- Did they call each other Lady Mendl? Duchess?

I'm sure some of their conversations have been documented. Do You know of?

Were they?

Of the latest Mainbocher?

EdeW that last "bleu did not suit You? No?"

"No?"

"No."


WWW's next bauble from the Duke?

WWW~ "E. is looking at a ring."

"A ring? No."

"No?"

"Absolutely -No- A brooch. NO?"

"A brooch?"

"A brooch."

"A brooch."

I somehow envision these two sitting down to just doing some down & dirty gossiping. Talking about past lives-actresses-& otherwise, their men-& otherwise, their peccadilloes & otherwise.

Elsie serving up:
1 ½ oz. Tanqueray gin
¾ oz. Cointreau
3 oz. freshly-squeezed and chilled pink or ruby red grapefruit juice (or more to taste)

Stir gin and Cointreau together and chill. Stir in grapefruit juice and pour into a chilled cocktail glass.

read more about it here
or maybe WWW & EdeW swapped receipts WWW's her famed PORK CAKE. yummy. Get the skinny here at Lucindaville.

” Nobody ever called me beautiful, or even pretty.”
WWW

& begging the design purists pardon

read LUCINDAVILLE post on GOSSIP here
an article about Lady Mendl from the New Yorker 1938 here

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