![]() ![]() I wanted to be a dress designer! And I ended up with Miss Holliday, who was Mr. Miss Holliday, who trained me, she preferred apprentices, because when they went to college they were taught a certain way, weren’t they? Whereas I didn’t know anything. I think I was the last apprentice to go into this workroom, because all the others after me came from the college. I’d turned fourteen in May and finished school, and in August I started at Hartnell. ![]() Foster stretches to dozens of pages.”Ī: It was 1942, during the war but after the Blitz, although there was still a blackout and some air raids going on. “The following passages are only a brief sample of our hours-long conversation, which took place at her home in the south of England transcribed in its entirety, my interview with Mrs. Betty Foster, one of the four seamstresses who helped to create Princess Elizabeth’s wedding gown in 1947. ![]() ![]() In February 2017 Jennifer Robson, the author had the good fortune to interview Mrs. The Gown is an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century – Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown – and the fascinating women who made it. ![]()
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