Jean Aston
/Victoriana Was Never Like This
Victoriana was bric-a-brac, red flannel and whacking great pieces of furniture. It still is. Only people collect it now instead of throwing it away.
Victoriana was music-hall.
The music-hall featured girls in funny tights and yards of lace, and sometimes male impersonators in top hats.
A girl like JEAN ASTON looks great in a top hat, but you couldn't include her in any Victorian set-up.
The top hat would have been approved but not the skimpy undies, they'd have locked her up and sent out for a dress that reached to her ankles.
Oh well, san fairy.
She's acceptable in this modern age. And she only sings and dances for amateur shows. There's always a rush to fill the seats, of course, a because a lovely amateur can be an audience's idea of sheer delight.
Beautiful Britons No 192 - November 1971