The Missing Party-Girl: A Rags-to-Riches Cozy Mystery Romance by Nhys Glover

Author:Nhys Glover [Glover, Nhys]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BELISAMA PRESS
Published: 2021-03-27T22:00:00+00:00

Nothing more was said about Georgie for a few more entries, then she was front and center yet again.

20th January

It’s all been so exciting! I never knew that so much adventure could be mine here in London. My greatest fear had always been that the talk about this new London, this Swinging London that people are now starting to call it, would be an illusion. That my life would be no different here to my life at home. Luckily, my fears came to nothing. London is not like home in the least. It’s noisy and bustling. Everywhere I go I’m greeted with sights and sounds I never could have experienced at home.

Yesterday Georgie and I went down to High and Carnaby Streets. It’s the happening place for fashion. Of course, neither of us can afford the clothes in the new trendy dress shops. But we can look and try on the latest fashions. And that was what we did.

Because Georgie was a model before she had her son, she knows people in the ‘rag trade’, as it’s called. A friend of hers actually introduced us to Mary Quant, who’s considered the Mod woman’s greatest advocate. She personally showed us some of her mini frocks, which are shockingly short. Mary (yes, I was asked to call her by her first name!) said she called them ‘minis’ after the cars. I laughed. She said that young women needed freedom of movement so they can run and jump onto buses, unrestricted by long skirts. Just like men, was implied rather than said.

She let Georgie and I try on several of her ‘miniskirts’. I was a little nervous about coming out of the dressing room, I must admit. There was so much of my leg on view. But as no one in the back room batted an eye over a skirt that showed my knees, I relaxed. I imagine it will take a little time before I’m comfortable wearing the new style in public. But I do like the simplicity of the lines and the bright colors.

Georgie is a bit of a seamstress. Her aim is to copy some of the clothes we saw today. We might not be able to buy clothes featured in Harper’s Bizarre or Vogue but we can have close copies.

Georgie is an amazing person. What she went through with her ex-husband is horrifying. But instead of wallowing in her awful past and missing her ten-year-old son, she makes the most of every day. If ever there was someone who represents this new Mod generation it’s Georgie.

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