A London winter is really a season of coats: camel on Marylebone High Street, black wool along Sloane Street, a trench on the South Bank when the weather cannot make up its mind. Slim and slender girls have a natural gift for that kind of dressing, and ten on our route share the look, with Lucy the shortest of them at 163 cm and Violetta the tallest at 178.
What unites them even more than their line is a quiet sense of style. Three of them play an instrument, three make pictures with a camera or a brush, and several could plan your next trip away better than any concierge. They tend to notice the details of an evening, the lighting in a bar, the cut of a jacket, the song playing as you walk in, and to talk about them with real pleasure.
Karolina and Margo both play piano, Karolina in Covent Garden with a love of opera and architecture, Margo in Knightsbridge alongside contemporary art and gardening. Margo, in her early thirties, speaks in a soft, unhurried voice. Samanta plays violin, lives in Mayfair and knows the city's design hotels well. Patricia, auburn brown and Belgravia based, paints in watercolour and never tires of film noir.
Cindy, blonde with blue eyes, is a sailor and a yoga devotee who photographs her corner of Chelsea as she finds it. Stacy, also from Chelsea, takes street photographs too, snowboards in winter and loves an evening of comedy. Put the two of them on the King's Road on a bright afternoon and they would spot a dozen pictures you had missed. Violetta, the tallest of the ten, swims, reads widely and laughs easily at home in Belgravia.
Liana, in Marylebone, prefers French novels, pilates classes and an hour in her garden. Lucy, with long dark curls, lives in Pimlico and is both an early runner and an amateur astronomer, so a clear night with her is never short of things to look up at. Vanessa, sandy balayage and hazel eyes, cycles along the canal near her Paddington home and studies languages for pleasure.
Slim girls are often booked for the evenings where clothes do some of the talking: a first night at the Royal Opera House, cocktails in a design hotel in Soho, a long lunch that drifts into early evening in Chelsea. Mention the setting when you message and she will choose accordingly, a sharp trouser suit for one, a simple silk dress for another. Nothing flashy, just the ease of someone who knows what works.
Slender girls tend to travel easily, so this look pairs well with long ride weekends: a Friday dinner in London, a train into the countryside on Saturday, and a companion as comfortable in a country house hotel as in a Mayfair suite. Weekends are priced on application, and securing one takes a 50 percent deposit whose travel element cannot be refunded. For a single night rather than a weekend, ten hours overnight is £2,400.
Six of these ten are also statuesque: Violetta, Stacy, Samanta, Karolina, Vanessa and Patricia, and Cindy appears among the blondes. For a different kind of energy, visit the toned and athletic girls. Every fare is on the rates page, and booking takes a single message.
Say where tonight finds you and roughly what time, and the desk replies with the names of who can meet you there. WhatsApp or Telegram, answered all night long.