Plumes Gallery

Mrs Patrick Campbell & Lady Randolph Churchill

An interesting photograph showing the acclaimed stage beauty, Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865-1940), born Beatrice Stellar Tanner (pictured centre), in the same photograph as Mrs George Cornwallis-West (Lady Randolph Churchill, formerly Jennie Jerome, mother of Winston Churchill). Lady Randolph married George Cornwallis-West, a man twenty years her junior, in 1900. George began an affair with Mrs Pat around 1909 and he and Jennie separated in 1912. She reverted to her old title of Lady Randolph Churchill and later married Montagu Porch. Picture shows the cast of His Borrowed Plumes, a comedy play written by Jennie. Left to right top row, Miss Winifred Emery, Mr Henry Ainley, Mr Dawson Milward, Miss Stella Patrick-Campbell and seated Miss Annie Hughes and Lady Randolph Churchill. Date: 1914

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High fashion 1912

French models wearing creations by Zimmermann. (left), Charmeuse dress with intricate lace on the bodice, two points of black tulle form small setbacks and a thin plaited jet black belt. (right), Plain pink dress with small bodies, ribboned corsage, long embroidered sleeves. Date: 1912

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Beautiful gowns for the afternoon 1913

Clothing for the winter season, left: Violet charmeuse forms the draped skirt and the quaint little coatee of this pretty frock, there is a long tunic of mousseline de soie plissee in the same colour, this material appearing again in the bodice. Right: Effective dress has a draped skirt of black charmeuse with short tunic effect in velvet, the bodice is of black lace finished with a wide ceinture of rose-coloured taffetas.
1913

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