ABSTRACT
In July 1872, Here and There, a weekly erotic magazine published in London, included the following story:
Recently in the Strand a tall dashing brunette, with the unmistakable air which belongs to all members of the theatrical profession, was hurrying along encumbered in no slight degree by a somewhat bulky bundle…the speculations which may have evolved themselves in the minds of passing loungers as to its contents, soon had an opportunity of being set at rest…. For the lady slipped and fell, and with her the bundle, which, bursting open from the shock, scattered its contents around…it took some time to restore the bundle, which contained a number of theatrical odds and ends peculiar to stage-angels and ballet-girls; amongst them, prominently figuring, [were] a pair of wings such as the spectacular cherub wears, and-a pair of tights.
