Schiap” on Line

‘Or give me a new Muse with stockings and suspenders 
And a smile like a cat
 With false eyelashes and finger-nails of carmine 
And dressed by Schiaparelli, with a pill-box hat.’ from Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice Once upon a time, (In the 1920’s) a young Italian beauty was invited to a ball in London.…