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Authors: Lindy Woodhead
on early television,
134
approves of encouraging good design,
139
HGS attempts to buy,
172
on Selfridge’s television department and studio,
252
Tirtoff, Romain de,
164
Titanic
(ship),
119
–20
Todd, Dorothy,
201
Tree, Arthur,
40
Tree, Ethel (
née
Field)
see
Beatty, Ethel, Countess
Tree, Judge Lambert,
39
Tucker, Sophie,
202
Tyrrell, Margaret Ann, Lady,
152
U
underwear (women’s),
26
,
162
,
241
–2
United States of America: retail shops in,
7
women and fashion,
24
–5
neutrality in First World War,
137
–8
HGS visits in wartime,
151
Independence,
166
Selfridge’s buyers visit,
212
HGS makes public relations tour,
216
HGS visits (1935),
239
–40
HGS visits to raise money,
249
HGS makes final trip to,
256
see also
Chicago
V
Valentino, Rudolph,
192
Vanderbilt, Gloria,
224
Veragua, Duke of,
50
–51
Versailles, Treaty of (1919),
157
Vesey, Sir Yvo Richard,
83
Victoria, Queen: dress,
3
Victory Construction Company,
157
Videau brothers,
6
Vionnet, Madeleine,
227
Vogue
(magazine),
144
,
165
,
201
,
222
,
241
Voronoff, Serge,
161
W
Wadsworth (Chicago businessman),
20
wages,
165
Walcot, William,
237
Wall Street crash (1929),
228
Walpole, Hugh,
140
Walton, Maurice and Florence,
123
Ward, Fanny,
195
Waring & Gillow (company),
74
,
77
Waring & White (company),
74
,
80
Warner, Frank,
139
Washington
, SS, 256
Wassiltchikoff, Princess Lydia,
182
Waugh, Evelyn,
192
Webb, Clifton,
193
Wellcome, Henry S.,
89
,
113
–14,
128
,
150
Wellcome, Syrie
see
Maugham, Syrie
Wembley Stadium,
185
West, Dame Rebecca,
114
Westminster Gazette
,
136
Westminster, Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of (‘Bendor’),
165
Westwood, John,
194
Wheaton-Smith, Craig,
259
Wheaton-Smith, Simon (HGS’s grandson),
61
,
171
Wheaton-Smith, Tatiana (
née
de Wiasiemsky; Rosalie-Serge’s daughter),
171
,
182
–3,
247
,
250
,
259
Whistler, Rex,
188
White, James G.,
74
White, James (‘Jimmy’),
191
,
207
–9,
213
,
215
–16
White, Pearl,
207
Whiteley, William: murdered,
82
Whiteley’s (store), Bayswater, London: HGS admires,
6
refused liquor licence,
8
HGS claims salary arrears for,
236
dividends,
249
Whiteman, Paul (band leader),
177
Whittaker, Freda,
187
Wiasemsky, Princess Marie de (Marie de Bolotoff),
147
–8,
152
,
171
,
182
Wiasemsky, Rosalie (
née
Selfridge; HGS-Rose’s daughter): birth,
50
upbringing,
96
at finishing school in New York,
119
makes debut in Chicago,
128
–9
joins Red Cross in war,
146
courtship and marriage to Serge,
147
–8,
152
,
171
occupies Wimbledon Park House,
182
at Lansdowne House charity ball,
188
watches Suzanne Lenglen win Wimbledon,
201
visits Russia,
202
denies father’s wish to marry Jenny Dolly,
222
financial difficulties,
236
lives in Brook House with father,
247
moves to Putney with family,
258
Wiasemsky, Serge de (
earlier
de Bolotoff): aviation,
147
–8
courtship and marriage to Rosalie,
147
–8,
152
photographed with HGS,
171
adopts Wiasemsky title,
182
–3
refugee status confirmed,
190
visits Russia with HGS,
202
lives in Brook House,
247
moves to Putney with HGS,
258
Wiasemsky, Prince Vladimir,
182
Salome
,
103
Will o’the Wisp
(boys’ magazine),
15
,
129
Williams, Arthur H.,
109
,
126
,
181
,
234
,
245
–6
Willoughby de Broke, Henry Verney, 18th Baron,
40
Wills, Helen,
209
Wimbledon: Wiasemsky family in,
182
Wimborne, Ivor Guest, 1st Baron,
83
Winchester, Henry William Montagu Paulet, 16th Marquis of,
209
Wingate, Poppy,
187
Winterbottom, Captain Leslie,
196
,
244
Witte, Serge, Count,
148
Wittouck, Jacques,
215
women: dress,
3
–4,
21
–4,
55
–6,
98
,
102
–3,
162
as shoppers,
4
–5
facilities for,
8
pavilion in Chicago World Fair,
48
–9
make-up,
49
World Congress, Chicago (1893),
55
dancing,
56
employees in Selfridge’s,
82
,
122
,
134
,
142
sports-wear,
98
suffrage,
122
–3
war work,
134
–5
magazines,
163
–4
banned from gambling in Paris,
175
trouser-wearing,
176
Wong, Anna May,
176
Woolton, Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of,
221
Wordsworth, Mrs (dancing teacher),
97
World Fair (Chicago, 1893)
see
Chicago
World’s Congress of Representative Women,
55
Worth, Charles Frederick,
24
–5,
28
Worth, Jean-Philippe,
25
Wortley, Major-General Edward Stuart,
146
,
182
Wragg (Selfridge’s radio buyer),
180
Wright, Frank Lloyd,
63
Wright, Wilbur and Orville,
104
Y
Yale, Madame (cosmeticist),
49
Yarborough, Victoria Alexandrina, Countess of,
83
Yerkes, Charles Tyson,
72
–3
You Can’t Take It with You
(film),
251
Yoxall, Harry,
201
–2
Z
Ziegfeld, Florenz,
44
Ziegfeld, Florenz, Jr,
44
,
53
,
193
Ziegfeld’s Follies (New York),
44
Zographos, Nicolas,
206
,
235
,
250
Zola, Emile,
1
Au Bonheur des Dames
,
7
Zukor, Adolph,
131
1. Harry Gordon Selfridge married Rosalie Amelia Buckingham on 11 November 1890 in an extravagantly orchestrated ceremony held in Chicago. They spent their honeymoon in Newport, Rhode Island.
2. Lois Selfridge, Harry’s mother, in 1906 at the age of 71. Friends remarked that ‘she seemed the embodiment of a classic sweet old lady, but she was unobtrusively formidable’.
3. Harry Gordon Selfridge, seen here
c.
1910, was always immaculately groomed and tailored. His taste was for formal clothes and he was rarely seen in anything remotely casual.
4. Oxford Street at the corner of Duke Street,
c.
1907, before the construction of Selfridge’s.