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Nick, Thank you for your comments. It is wonderful to know that a group of nudists visited the Lee Miller Archives and Penrose Collection, and even better to know that they were greeted warmly with the acknowledgment of Lee’s experiences with social nakedness. I think as word gets out, and that was part of the reason for my article in partial response to the 2024 movie, more nudists will seek out opportunities to visit the Archives and learn more about Lee’s family’s participation in nude activities along the Hudson River in New York. Carl
A few summers ago I visited her former home in Sussex, England that she shared with Roland Penrose, which is now a base for the Lee Miller Archives and The Penrose Collection. I was part of a group who went there on a date that was organised by a local naturist group, there were about 30 of us touring it nude. We were given a very informative guided tour by the staff around the house and adjacent gallery with coffee and cakes served outside the latter. At one point a few of us were talking to a staff member, she asked if we were aware of Lee Miller’s experiences of social nudism that you’ve covered here. She was delighted to hear that we all knew about that and laughed when she realised that it was not as unlikely that we’d know this compared to the surprise that she said textile visitors often showed at being informed of that. She wondered aloud if there was perhaps a potential for more nudist visits there, due to Lee Miller’s connection to our way of life, but I am unaware that there have been.
An example of a more explicit crossover with K-pop would be Refund Sisters, a temporary project group from TV variety show “Hangout with Yoo” (MBC) that consisted of four top female pop divas across generations of K-pop Uhm Jung-hwa (1993 debut), Lee Hyori (1998 debut; first generation idol group Fin.K.L member who became a national icon after solo debut in 2003), Jessi (2005 debut; amassed great popularity from Mnet’s 2015 female rapper competition show “Unpretty Rapstar”), and Hwasa (2014 debut; third generation idol group Mamamoo member). The group name originates from the joke that advocating for oneself (e.g., asking for tricky refunds) would be easy with the support of its fierce, confident members. Their single celebrates their successful careers as “strong” women in K-pop:


















