Weird sisters?

摘要

James Watson was thrilled to catch an illicit glimpse of Rosalind Franklin's X-ray photograph suggesting the double-helical structure of DNA. He was much less impressed by her personal appearance. "There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair," he wrote in The Double Helix, "while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents." Had he been more aware of European fashion, he might have appreciated the care Franklin took to adopt designer Christian Dior's iconic 1947 New Look - although she presumably never revealed to him that her underwear was hand-made from parachute silk to her own specifications.