A Fashion Journalist on the Titanic?!

12 Apr A Fashion Journalist on the Titanic?!

Last Sunday my family and I ventured to the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts to see the Titanic exhibit.

There was a movie that showed the challenges of the first people to explore the wreckage in the 80’s. To accompany the movie there was an exhibit of artifacts and relics saved from the ship.

It was cool to see how the first class traveled in comparison to the third class. I just knew that one of the wealthy ladies was going to be traveling with a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk or something of the sort. I was hoping to see that at the exhibit but sadly, if Louis was on that ship, he was not saved.

However, I did find out a rather interesting fashion tidbit. There was a fashion reporter on board.

Edith Louise Rosenbaum, 33 was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Ohio. She was better know as Edith Russell and boarded the Titanic at Cherbourg, France. She had been reporting on French fashions at Paris Easter Sunday races when she decided to return to the U.S. aboard the Titanic.

And get this, Miss Edith tried to get her luggage insured because of the amount of belongings she was travelling with and she was told that the ship was unsinkable so there would not be a need for insurance.

We know the rest of that story but Edith survived and went on to become the first female war correspondent during World War 1. She died in London at the age of 98.

That Ethel sure sounded like a character didn’t she?