page_title: Dolores (Ziegfeld girl)
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Dolores (Ziegfeld girl) / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs Tudor Wilkinson, Eve The Lady's Pictorial 25 March 1925.
context_page_description: Dolores or Rose Dolores was an English model. She is recognised as the first celebrity clothes model and has been credited with inventing the blank hauteur of the modern fashion model. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. called her "the loveliest showgirl in the world". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second World War helped Allied airmen escape the German occupation.
context_section_description: On 15 May 1923, Dolores married the St. Louis art collector Tudor Wilkinson in Paris and retired from the stage. The ceremony took place in the mairie of the first arrondissement and later at the oratory of the Louvre. Mr and Mrs Dudley Field Malone were the witnesses. In 1925, the American press reported that the couple lived on the Île Saint-Louis in a house overlooking Notre-Dame Cathedral, most likely the three-storey apartment at 18 Quai d'Orleans referred to in later sources.
  After her marriage, Dolores adopted the severe masculine style of dress and hair popular at that time, appearing in Eve, The Lady's Pictorial in 1925 in a suit jacket and tie. The mannish appearance, uncharacteristic (in photographs) half-smile, and the knowing look in the picture has caused later commentators to wonder whether Dolores was signalling that she was a lesbian, but there is no evidence to suggest that she was and her appearance at this time may simply have been a fashion statement. The photograph appeared, slightly changed, on the cover of Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan in 2013.
caption: Mrs Tudor Wilkinson. Eve, The Lady's Pictorial, 1925.
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