Statuesque: nine names, listed straight down the tape
Nine women of 172 cm and upward, measured standing in ordinary shoes rather than claimed in a message. Six centimetres separate the tallest from the shortest here, which is less than it sounds and considerably more than it looks once everybody is in heels.
So the desk lists them the plain way, straight down the tape, and lets each page do the describing. Every figure below belongs to the same ladder as the rest of the sheet, £250 for sixty minutes and £900 for four hours at a table.
Cast as Statuesque
Plain facts, checked in person, never a guess. Every badge opens her pass, where the same details sit beside her rail and her photo call.
Angelika
24 years · 172 cm
Karolina
27 years · 174 cm
Michelle
27 years · 173 cm
Milena
25 years · 175 cm
Patricia
28 years · 172 cm
Samanta
27 years · 174 cm
Stacy
22 years · 176 cm
Vanessa
25 years · 173 cm
Violetta
30 years · 178 cm178 and 176
Violetta stands 178 cm, sleek black hair worn straight, thirty, precise and very quiet until the driest line of the night arrives from her end of the table. Stacy is 176 cm, near black hair worn very long, early twenties, and untroubled by either the height or a decision taken late in the evening. She photographs streets after dark and will go wherever the light is.
175 and 174
Milena is 175 cm and tall enough that a room rearranges itself slightly around her; she is direct to the point of bluntness and finds hedging tiresome. Karolina is 174 cm, slim and carries herself very straight, with the opera season already in her diary. Samanta is also 174 cm, a violinist, punctual to the minute, and firmly opinionated about which hotel bars are worth sitting in.
173, twice over
Michelle is 173 cm, warm, genuinely talkative, and the name the desk puts forward when a table of people who have never met has to work. Vanessa is the same height and the opposite tempo: unhurried in everything, the calmest company available on a Wednesday, and quietly in possession of every garden square shortcut in the postcode.
172, twice over
Angelika is 172 cm with shoulders built on a tennis court rather than a gym floor, dry more often than chatty, and firmly in favour of the later performance. Patricia matches her on the tape and dresses in soft lines rather than sharp ones, a watercolourist with a weakness for black and white films and the walk home afterwards.
Where the tape comes from
Heights are taken at the same table where identity is checked and the portraits are matched, and nothing is rounded upward. Add whatever she chooses to wear on the night, which around here is usually another eight centimetres. If you are booking around one particular room, a low ceilinged cellar bar or a stall seat with no legroom, mention it when you write and the desk will say plainly which of them is happy in it.
What the height changes, and what it does not
It changes photographs, doorways and the line of a coat. It changes nothing whatever about the figure, the notice needed or the way an evening gets arranged. Nobody on this note is here to tower over anybody; they are here because a frame is a plain fact somebody wanted to know before writing, and booking covers the rest of it in four short steps.
Also pinned elsewhere
Four of the nine are on raven haired, four on brunettes and one on auburn and red, while the frames cross into slim and slender six times and curvaceous twice. Five sit in late twenties, two in early twenties and two in thirties and beyond.
Holding a formal evening
This note takes more black tie than any other on the board, which usually means a date fixed further out and a dress code mentioned in the opening message. Tell the desk which room, which hour, and whether anybody else is at the table. A press night or a client dinner is confirmed exactly like everything else, the figure settled quietly at the start, and evenings around Holborn are often written a fortnight ahead.
Cast another way
Call the stage door
One message names the evening you want and the desk answers inside a quarter of an hour, at any point on the clock. Tell us the day, the hour, how long you would like and where she should come, and the rest is written down for you.
Running order
- Half hour
- Beginners
- YouCurtain up
- Interval
- Final bow