Petite: seven women, and the short SW1 walk each one would take you on
Petite, in this edit, is a matter of frame rather than a line on a measuring tape. Six of these seven women stand between 158 and 163 cm; the seventh, Tiffany, reaches 169 but carries the same fine-boned build, and it would be odd to file her anywhere else.
SW1 is a district best seen on foot and at a companionable pace, so each plate below comes with a short walk, the ten or fifteen minutes that turn the gap between a hotel and a table into a small pleasure of its own instead of dead time.
Tina: along the river to Whitehall Place
Tina stands 158 cm, athletic in build, with espresso brown hair worn long and a confident, practical charm. She designs and sews, knows a well made cocktail when she tastes one and collects old jazz pressings, which makes the stroll along the Embankment to the Bassoon Bar at the Corinthia in Westminster a very natural choice.
Jasmin: from a perfume hall to a proper bar
Jasmin is 160 cm, with straight chestnut hair and brown eyes, a salsa dancer with a nose for fragrance that borders on uncanny. Her walk starts among the scent counters at Harrods and ends a few minutes away at a bar where the bartender will mix something off the menu, somewhere near the top of Sloane Street.
Lea: Motcomb Street and the squares
Rosa: Elizabeth Street, sweetest end first
Rosa has chestnut curls, brown eyes and a curvy 160 cm frame, and she bakes to a standard that makes her a stern judge of any patisserie. She would begin at the flower-framed pink bakery where Elizabeth Street meets Ebury Street, then wander up towards Eaton Square, talking records and tiny galleries all the way.
Sonya: through the gates at Hyde Park Corner
Sonya, hazel eyed and 162 cm, has kept the upright bearing ballet gave her and a calm she renews with meditation each morning. From her home in Knightsbridge she would take you through the gates into Hyde Park and along to the Rose Garden, the quietest ten minutes in the district, before dinner.
Lucy: Millbank to the embankment
Lucy is slender at 163 cm with long dark curls, an espresso habit and an amateur astronomer's patience. She runs by the river most mornings, and her evening walk leaves the Turner rooms at Tate Britain for the embankment in Pimlico, where on a clear night she will find Jupiter for you among the city lights.
Tiffany: Buckingham Palace Road, camera out
Tiffany, the tallest of the seven at 169 cm, has glossy chocolate brown hair and a photographer's eye for doorways. Her walk starts with champagne in the black and white lounge of Hotel 41 near Victoria and drifts into the quieter Belgravia streets, her camera catching whatever the lamplight flatters.
Pace, heels and the other sets
A petite companion is lovely company for the familiar hour, an evening built on ease rather than ceremony, and just as good over three hours at £1,050. Several of the seven hang in other sets too: Tina and Sonya among the toned and athletic, Rosa with the curvaceous and Lucy among the slim and slender. Every plate begins at £400; write through booking with a name and an hour.
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