I love flying....it makes me dizzy....I haven't flown much in my life but I have always thought, in my dotage, I would take up flying lessons....
So how delighted was I when Joni Mitchell released Amelia......
I keep a beat-up caramel leather jacket in my wardrobe at all times, and a few long silk scarves, and tall brown leather boots.....I mean, you know, just in case I must pilot a plane....
In 1932, Amelia became the first woman to pilot a plane across the Atlantic.
Amelia Earhart is of the 20s...surely one of the top 3 of My Favorite Eras In Which I Wish I Had Lived....say that fast 5 times....
My bedtime read right now is Beryl Markham's West With The Night, her 1939 memoir of her time in Africa in the Edwardian era as a child and into her adulthood as an Aviatrix...In 1936 she flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean from London to a crash landing in Newfoundland.
....Such juicy details of her and Amelia.... a topic I'll come back to again and again.....
Vintage? Yes...Fashion was influenced by flying women....how bold of them to Fly! They captured attention then and they surely capture mine now.....
Amelia...it was only a false alarm....
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