The lifeboats weren’t attached to the deck so you could just step into them. One thing she kept with her: her lucky musical pig which she had gotten after a serious car accident the year before in which the driver had died. When a cabin steward told her it was time to abandon ship, she locked all 19 of her trunks and put all 19 keys in her pocket. In British Pathé interview from 1970, she describes people making snowballs out of the ice shards left on the deck after the collision. When the iceberg hit, Edith was unconcerned. She booked a first class cabin for herself and the 19 trunks full of glamorous gowns she was bringing across the ocean for her American clients. She was 32 and at the peak of her professional success when she boarded Titanic at Cherbourg. Now, thanks to the wonders of technology, the pig’s song can be heard again.Įdith (she would legally change her last name to Russell in 1918 out of concern about anti-German sentiment in the wake of World War I) was a fashion writer for Women’s Wear Daily, one of the first professional stylists with a glittering roster of show business clients on both sides of the Atlantic and had her own fashion label “Elrose” carried exclusively by Lord & Taylor’s. A musical pig credited with saving the life of its owner, Edith Rosenbaum, during the sinking of the Titanic on April 14th, 1912, has been silent for decades.
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