Who is Miss Marianne Martindale?
“A few weeks ago almost nobody had heard of Miss Marianne Martindale. Now she is everywhere, holding press conferences, appearing on radio phone-ins, being interviewed and photographed by the classier Sunday supplements, It can only be a matter of time before she is given her own T.V. chat show.” Francis Wheen in The Guardian MISS MARIANNE MARTINDALE is an elegant lady who dresses in the style of the 1930s, not just for special occasions, but all the time. Fox-furs and cigarette-holders are her everyday accessories. Real, non-stretch 1950s nylons that crinkle their exquisite fineness at the ankle and behind the knee. “Nobody makes them exactly right in the Pit.” So Miss Martindale and her Aristasian girls have started another company to supply traditional stockings. You may think she is rather unusual, but she does not. “Every one I know dresses like this. How else would one dress?” She smiles engagingly. Miss Martindale belongs to an all-female group which believes that things went ve