Castle

Irene (1893-1969). American Dancer. Born Irene Foote in New Rochelle, New York, Irene and her husband Vernon Castle formed a celebrated ballroom dance team in the 1910s. Performing first in Europe, at the Café de Paris, and later in theaters throughout America, the Vernon Castles were the pop idols of their times, responsible for such new dance crazes as the one-step and the turkey trot. Castle’s slim, effortless chic influenced a generation of young women, who, in particular, widely copied her boyishly bobbed-hair and headbands, her loose, flowing clothes and overall fashion flair.