of course

tietenkin (&lit)

(ux)

“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.(nb..)”

There were other flapper-era starlets, of course—Louise Brooks, Greta Garbo—but they were poseurs by comparison.