Lady Duff Gordon Titanic survivor: A look back! Discover untold stories of the fashion icon on the sinking ship!

by Joyce Mackintosh

So, the other day, I got sucked into this whole Titanic thing again. You know, that giant ship that hit an iceberg and sank? Yeah, that one. But this time, it wasn’t about Jack and Rose. Nope. This time, I stumbled upon this lady called Lady Duff-Gordon.

Lady Duff Gordon Titanic survivor: A look back! Discover untold stories of the fashion icon on the sinking ship!

First off, I started digging into who this Lady Duff-Gordon was. Turns out, she was a pretty big deal in the fashion world back then. I mean, she had her own weekly column in the Hearst newspapers! Imagine that, a fashion influencer before Instagram even existed! So I found some stuff about her being a fashion designer. But it seemed like there was more to her story than just pretty dresses.

Then I dove into the Titanic connection. She and her hubby, Cosmo, were on the ship when it hit the iceberg. And get this – they were rescued on lifeboat 1. Sounds good, right? Except that lifeboat could hold 40 people, and there were only 12 on it! 12! Can you believe that? I read somewhere that only three women were called to testify at the Titanic inquiry, and she was one of them! Her and her husband were the only passengers called up, not because they saw anything important.

I also learned that she and Cosmo had four children. It’s kind of sad, though, because I saw that one of their kids died when he was just a baby. She had a daughter named Janet Ann Ross born in 1842, and she died in 1927. She had another kid born in 1849 that died after a few months. Another son named Maurice became Sir Maurice Duff-Gordon.

So, I started piecing things together. This woman was a famous fashion designer, a Titanic survivor, and she and her husband were in the middle of this whole controversy about that nearly empty lifeboat. Honestly, it’s a bit of a mess, and the more I read, the more complicated it got.

I ended up spending hours on this, and I still don’t have all the answers. But it’s crazy to think about how this one person’s life was connected to so many different things – fashion, the Titanic, and even this whole lifeboat drama. It’s like a soap opera, but real! I still had a few months of life.

Lady Duff Gordon Titanic survivor: A look back! Discover untold stories of the fashion icon on the sinking ship!

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