Slim and slender: the long narrow line, ten names
Ten women stand on this page, six of them above 170 cm, which gives it the largest overlap with statuesque of any silhouette page here. The line is long and narrow rather than thin, and like every other silhouette here it was recorded by eye rather than taken from a form.
It is also, by some distance, the page with the most composed women on it. Five of the ten are names the desk puts forward when an evening has other people in it and something is riding on how it goes.
Particulars
Violetta, 178 cm, 30, sleek black hair. Stacy, 176 cm, 22, near black brown. Karolina, 174 cm, 27, straight black, a Covent Garden resident. Samanta, 174 cm, 27, dark brown, Mayfair based. Vanessa, 173 cm, 25, sandy brown with balayage. Patricia, 172 cm, 28, auburn brown.
Cindy, 168 cm, 26, long wavy blonde, blue eyed. Liana, 167 cm, 28, straight chestnut brown, lives in Marylebone. Margo, 166 cm, 31, straight dark brown. Lucy, 163 cm, 24, dark brown in proper curls rather than polite ones.
Where the ten are at home
Mayfair is Samanta's own postcode; she prefers to arrive on foot, composed rather than shaken out of a car, and the desk can often confirm her for the same evening. Karolina is four minutes from the Opera House and Liana is minutes from Portman Square, which makes all three of them genuinely quick inside their own streets.
Westminster belongs to Margo on this page. She comes in from Knightsbridge in fifteen minutes, asks for the names of anybody else at the table in advance, and uses them correctly all evening. The rest travel in from Chelsea, Belgravia, Paddington and Pimlico, fifteen to twenty five minutes at the relevant hours.
What they are booked for
Margo is the name for a room where discretion is the entire point and has a long memory for detail and a very short one for anything that ought to be forgotten. Violetta suits an occasion where somebody is being introduced. Karolina builds an evening backwards from a curtain time. Patricia is precise: nothing wasted, nothing missing, for exactly as long as booked.
The rest of the page is warmer and less formal. Cindy is decisive about food and generous about wine and gets you out again by nine. Lucy needs no audience and is the least judgmental company on the list. Stacy asks for a fixed hour and takes late starts. Vanessa is comfortable with a decision made at the last minute. Samanta looks expensive without a single obvious label.
Cross references
By hair: Cindy on blondes; Liana, Lucy, Margo, Samanta, Stacy and Vanessa on brunettes; Karolina and Violetta on raven haired; Patricia on auburn and red.
Six of the ten stand again on statuesque and Lucy alone on petite, which is the full spread of heights this index holds. By decade: Stacy and Lucy in the early twenties, six in the late twenties, Margo and Violetta in thirties and beyond.
To ask for one of the ten
Every one of them opens at £250 for the hour, with three hours at £700 and four at £900, all of it on rates. The figure is handed to her in person in the first minute she is through the door.
Tell booking the hour, the building and what the evening is, and Romilly will say which of the ten fits it and why. Or start from On The Books and choose for yourself.
Tell us where.
We write the rest.
The desk is being read right now, by a person rather than a form. One line with the district and the hour is all it takes, and nothing is set until you say so.
- WhereYour hotel or flat
- WhenThe hour you name
- CompanionFrom the board
- Arrival20 to 35 minutes
- FigureQuoted in writing