Georges Moreau de Tours, French
What Lady Rosalind, the Duchess of Bazongashire, Wore To the Coronation, 1887
Oil on canvas
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/// Marianne donned her dress for The Fitting.
Wants it “tight as it gets without splitting.”
The gown needs to be wearable,
but with one boob that’s bareable,
since, to nursing her kid she’s committing.
/// Her dress-fitting is done is the woods
to avoid certain Romany hoods.
Marianne is their “Queen,”
(playing her tambourine),
but they won’t keep their hands off her “goods.”
/// Marianne’s seamstress, next to her knelt,
thinking, “Bare skin looks best if you’re svelte.
This gown now is cut low.
If much higher we go,
she’ll be left wearing naught but a belt.
/// Seamstress uses small pins and soap which
help her mark where she later will stitch.
Her precise alteration
is the key to creation
of a form-fitting frock to bewitch.
/// Marianne’s former “womb-mate” pins pins.
(They’re twin sisters!) M. secretly grins.
She’s displaying her right
breast; the left’s out of sight,
for they aren’t identical twins.
/// This snug sensuous hip-hugging gown,
is what brought Marianne her renown.
When it’s on, she can’t pee,
(not unless she’s cut free);
this whole night there’ll be no sitting down.
/// To avoid any lines to smooth down,
there’s no underwear worn ‘neath her gown.
With no slip, she seems bolder
when it slips off her shoulder.
This “strip-slip” made her toast of the town.
/// You might think that her clothing “deletion”
had been based on gowns classically Grecian,
but the influence clear,
throughout France in this year,
was Gauguin, and his beauties Tahitian.