Brunettes: fifteen names, sorted by shade
One drawer of the cabinetFifteen of the twenty-eight are brown haired, which makes this much the largest drawer in the cabinet and the least useful one to open on its own. Brown covers a great deal of ground: light and sun-kissed at one end, espresso and near black at the other, with curls, waves and poker straight all present. This page sorts them by shade so that the drawer is worth something.
It reaches nine of the twelve districts on the attendance list and every age band the house keeps. Read it beside a frame drawer or an age drawer and it narrows quickly. The figures do not move for any of that: £250 an hour and £900 for a four hour dinner, whichever of the fifteen arrives.
The lighter end, sun in it
Bianka is 165 cm and curvy, her light brown hair sun-kissed at the ends as though it had kept part of last summer, her eyes hazel. She is twenty-three, lives in Knightsbridge and remembers how you take your coffee. Laura is 169 cm and athletic, her light brown hair sun-kissed and her eyes green, twenty-five, and she looks like the outdoors even in a dining room. Vanessa is 173 cm, sandy brown with balayage through the lengths, hazel eyed, and moves slowly on purpose.
Chestnut, three of them
Jasmin is 160 cm, chestnut brown, straight and long, twenty-two and the quickest talker here. Liana is 167 cm and slim, chestnut worn straight, twenty-eight, and has the gallery habit of standing slightly too long in front of one thing. Rosa is 160 cm and curvy, her chestnut hair genuinely curly, twenty-five, and she laughs first and explains afterwards.
Dark brown, the long run
Lucy is 163 cm and slender with properly curly dark brown hair she has no intention of straightening. Margo is 166 cm, dark brown, straight, thirty-one and exact about most things. Michelle is 173 cm and curvy, dark brown and straight, warm and practical underneath it. Molly is 164 cm and curvy, dark brown worn waved, and warm before she is anything else.
Samanta is 174 cm and slim with long dark brown hair and almost nothing added to it: black clothes, one ring. Sonya is 162 cm, dark brown worn long and straight, hazel eyed, thirty-two, athletic, and direct without any edge to it.
Chocolate, espresso, near black
Tiffany is 169 cm with a petite frame and long heavy chocolate brown hair, twenty-four, and arrives in something that catches the light without paying it any attention. Tina is 158 cm, espresso brown, athletic, and the smallest woman here and the hardest to overlook. Stacy is 176 cm and slim with near-black brown hair, twenty-two, and calmer than either the height or the age would suggest.
What fifteen names actually gives you
Nine districts, every length of booking and a range from 158 to 176 cm. That is a lot of choice and it is not always a kindness. If you are opening this drawer first, the fastest route is to decide one other thing, a frame or an age band, and read the two together. If you would rather not, describe the evening in a line and let Tamsin name two.
Seven of the fifteen are in late twenties, six in early twenties and two above thirty. Six are in petite, six in slim and slender, four in statuesque, four in curvaceous and three in toned and athletic, so no frame is missing from this one.
Asking for one of the fifteen
Send the name, the date, the hours and where you are staying, or send two names and let the diaries decide. Her own page carries the room she would choose, the length of evening she prefers and the nights she is in London. An answer comes back the same day with a time to the minute and the figure, and nothing is held until you have agreed to both.