Some of Miss Dora Benley’s outfits can be described as nothing short of sumptuous with elegant tailoring and styling. If the heroine of Key to Lawrence appeared at a restaurant dressed in the bold indigo teal silk dress with colorful embroidery and metallic lace pictured today at www.edwardwarethrillers.org, all eyes would turn toward her faux skirt with the high waistband and the peach plumage bodice. Fashion was not to be so drop dead elegant again until the 1930’s. Since the the 1930’s even the memory of such sophistication and utter femininity has faded into the ever far distant past.