Tatler cover - Lady in riding breeches, Rotten Row

Front cover of The Tatler magazine featuring a photograph of a young woman in Rotten Row, the famous and fashionable riding thoroughfare in London's Hyde Park. Photographed in 1917, when women's role were changing due to the war, her riding breeches and general masculine dress is commented on with admiration by The Tatler, who asks, What WOULD Grandmama have said? alluding to the conservative and prudish Victorians

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