Mrs Vernon (Irene) Castle
IRENE CASTLE (nee FOOTE) Dancer, with her husband Vernon Castle known as America's Dancing Sweethearts. Pictured in The Tatler at the time she and her husband had delighted London at the great Serbian matinee by their exquisite dancing which was the outstanding feature of a star show. It goes on to describe Mrs Castle as, an almost absolute arbiter of fashion in New York, and what she wears to-day America wears to-morrow. She came over to London for a week to see her husband, who has joined the Flying Corps, and who is now on Salisbury Plain. It is said that their joint income in America through dancing and dancing classes reached the astonishing figure of £50, 000. In the above photograph Mrs. Vernon Castle is wearing a dress of the famous Vernon Castle lace manufactured to her own design, and which is likely to inaugurate a fashion in this particular form of fashion
