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Nellie Melba, 1903 / Talma & Co.

from State Library of New South Wales

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Silvia Da Rocha said:

  That's a pretty coat, Dame Nellie.

• Old-fashioned Jelly said:

  Now on Wikimedia Commons
  

• lisayorkiepoo said:

  old.

• State Library of New South Wales said:

  Although later in life she wore other couture on the stage and in life, Melba usually wore clothes by Worth. Her teacher Mathilde Marchesi had impressed on her the importance of good clothes. Englishman Charles Frederick Worth is generally considered the first couture designer and he established his premises in Paris in the mid-1850's Reference; Melba, the voice of Australia / by Thérèse Radic. South Melbourne : Macmillan, 1986

• Icy Cabbage said:

  I spend my youth in Brussels-ANDERLECHT (Belgium) Not far from home there was a "" Nellie Melba Avenue "" , where my mathematic teacher lived. She gave her name to a famous classic dessert : Pêche Melba (Peach Melba)