Clan Tartan VII

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Bardot Tartan

Summer anyone?

no need to relegate tartan to the closet in the summer...

but we are about to end our Clan Tartan for now-with one final bow yet to come.

billy boy

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 Millicent Rogers and her dachshund, photograph by John Rawlings,1945.

friend Barbara over at my dog eared pages...

you know where this is going?
that "dog eared" is the giveaway No?



this is Billy-he belongs to Barbara.

Barbara's Billy, by Eric.

 you could say Billy is a beach bum-but don't tell his Mistress that
she'd say he's a beach stud.

 photograph by Toni Frissell, Vogue, 1938.

the dachshund is one of the breeds that seems to be destined for celebrity-as Billy attests to.

it must be their photogenic qualities...

Lillian Bassman photograph for Harper's Bazaar, 1954, from Christie's

Princess Caroline of Monaco with pups

Picasso with his "Lump"

destined for more than just 15 minutes-

the dachshund has taken its place in the celebrity dogs Hall of Fame.

Andy Warhol with his dog Archie, 1973, Photograph © Jack Mitchell

and below by Andy Warhol.

(but why is it so darned difficult to spell?) why not just spell LOVE.
 

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top o' the morin' to ya!

it takes a Lot o'Luck
& 
LOVE.

Mia Farrow

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anticipating-

GRACE.

 VOGUE, UK. 1975

her book coming in November

an excerpt here at VOGUE.com Now.

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Once Upon A Time-when a Letter of Praise to a child was enough

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Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley & her father Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford by Zinke 1727, at about age 12, from the Harley Gallery  here

 

A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley, when a Child~ by Matthew Prior

MY noble, lovely, little Peggy,
Let this my First Epistle beg ye,
At dawn of morn, and close of even,
To lift your heart and hands to Heaven.
In double duty say your prayer:
Our Father first, then Notre Pere.

And, dearest child, along the day,
In every thing you do and say,
Obey and please my lord and lady,
So God shall love and angels aid ye.

If to these precepts you attend,
No second letter need I send,
And so I rest your constant friend.

Today it must be a hospital suite-a rap song- a movie role-a runway -a magazine cover.


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