Jo Anne Lee has to hold on to the Wardrobe Mistress, as she steps into the middle of the wired underskirt which for~~~ the foundation of her Queen Elizabeth, dress.
Dressing A Queen - When She's In She Can't Get Out!: Pretty 22-year-old Jo Anne Lee of Durham, who is appearing in the ice pantomime "Sleeping Beauty" at the Wembley Pool, finds she has to get to the Stadium earlier than her colleague, reason is it takes her longer to dress. Jo Anne takes the part of Queen Elizabeth I in the great Elizabethan Age Finale of the show. She wears a magnificent gown made from 25 yards of gold satin, with a huge ruff at the neck over a wired underskirt. The gown is an exact copy of the one worn by the queen in the famous Armada painting. Owing to the great weight of the dress Jo Ann Lee h as great and she is nearly always suffering from cramp by the end of the performance. One of Jo Ann's biggest headaches is how to get out of her dressing room once she has got into the dress - she says doors ~ust have been much wider in the first Elizabeth's day.
Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.
Photo is dated --0000.
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