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roseembolism) wrote2008-08-23 04:01 pm
roseembolism) wrote2008-08-23 04:01 pm
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Answering those Eternal Questions...
There are questions that will pry on our minds, that wake us up years later thinking "Damn it, I still don't know the answer!".
Case in point: on listening to the song "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by the Smithereens 20 years ago, I immediately asked the obvious question: "Who the HELL is Jennie Shelton?" . Unfortunately, it was many years before I found out: even when Googel was being established, the answer remained "Ask again later". It was only until recently, when lyric sites became well established and started covering second-string 80s bands, that I found the answer. And it started with the fact that I got the name wrong: it's wasn't Jennie Shelton, it was Jeannie Shrimpton
As for who she was? She was a model back in the 1960s, one of the first supermodels. She was famed for causing a fuss at the 1965 Melbourne Cup by wearing one of the early models of the miniskirt (hemline ABOVE the knees! Gasp! No Stockings, Gloves or hat!), a very practical, cool and sleeveless number, that was the height of fashion in London, and unknown elsewhere.
And there we have it, the rest- well, no, not even close to the rest of the story of Ms. Shrimpton (I haven't even mentioned her knitting). But it's a minor mystery solved, and so I am content.
Case in point: on listening to the song "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by the Smithereens 20 years ago, I immediately asked the obvious question: "Who the HELL is Jennie Shelton?" . Unfortunately, it was many years before I found out: even when Googel was being established, the answer remained "Ask again later". It was only until recently, when lyric sites became well established and started covering second-string 80s bands, that I found the answer. And it started with the fact that I got the name wrong: it's wasn't Jennie Shelton, it was Jeannie Shrimpton
As for who she was? She was a model back in the 1960s, one of the first supermodels. She was famed for causing a fuss at the 1965 Melbourne Cup by wearing one of the early models of the miniskirt (hemline ABOVE the knees! Gasp! No Stockings, Gloves or hat!), a very practical, cool and sleeveless number, that was the height of fashion in London, and unknown elsewhere.
And there we have it, the rest- well, no, not even close to the rest of the story of Ms. Shrimpton (I haven't even mentioned her knitting). But it's a minor mystery solved, and so I am content.