My sister and I were looking through boxes of old family photos last weekend and among the pictures of people in World War I-era wedding gear and snapshots of children we couldn’t identify we found some really glamorous relatives. I wasn’t surprised that the best was Noma, our paternal grandfather’s younger sister, who got into some kind of trouble in Warsaw and was sent to live with an older brother and his wife in Paris. When you see these pictures of her from 1920 and 1922, you can imagine what the trouble probably was:
There are also a lot of pictures of Noma and her sister-in-law, who clearly shared her taste in stylish hats:

Even right after the war, in 1945, she managed to pull together a pretty good look:

And here she and her third husband look like they’re getting ready to send their head shots to Hollywood for the next Bogart movie:

In her 60s, which is when I met her, giving my grandparents the classic tour of Paris, she could obviously pull off a pose like no one else in the family:

More to come–including someone we don’t recognize wearing a dress with sparkly swastikas on it.