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Twelve shortlists, twenty eight names

Twenty eight women is too many to read in one sitting and nobody should have to. These twelve shortlists cut the same roster four different ways: by the colour of her hair, by the frame she carries, by the decade she is in, and nothing else. Every one of them is built from the measurements on her own page, taken standing and without heels, and no shortlist here has been padded to make a page look busy.

Two shortlists read together will get you to a name faster than any of them read alone. Slim and late twenties is six women. Black haired and tall is four. That is a conversation the desk can actually have with you, which a list of twenty eight is not. Everybody appears on the board as well, in full, with the hours she works and the postcodes she covers.

Shortlists the desk keeps

The twelve shortlists

List 01hairBlondesFour women on a roster of twenty eight, which tells you something about the east. This is a part of London that wears dark colours and does not go in for highlights, so the blondes here stand out...4 on the list List 02hairBrunettesMore than half the roster, which is what happens when a book is filled from east London rather than from a casting call. Brown hair covers a great deal of ground, so this page is sorted by shade...15 on the list List 03hairRaven hairedBlack rather than very dark brown, which is a distinction this page takes seriously. Six women on the roster have properly black hair, and the interesting thing is how differently they wear it:...6 on the list List 04hairAuburn and redThree names, which is the true number rather than a flattering one. Auburn covers a real range here: waves that are almost copper in a low room, a dark red that reads brown until the light hits...3 on the list List 05silhouettePetitePetite is filed here from frame as much as from the measurement. A small build carried lightly, a quick step, and a way of taking a room that never needed the height to do it. Seven women qualify,...7 on the list List 06silhouetteStatuesqueNine women stand at 172 cm or above, which is a third of the roster and a good deal more height than this book expected to end up with. Every measurement below is taken flat, standing, in the room...9 on the list List 07silhouetteCurvaceousTen women on this shortlist, which makes it one of the two largest frame pages on the site. They are arranged below by where they work rather than by any other order, because in the east the...10 on the list List 08silhouetteSlim and slenderTen women are filed as slim or slender here, which makes this the other large frame page. They run from 163 cm up to 178 cm, they are spread from the N1 end of Kingsland Road down to the E14...10 on the list List 09silhouetteToned and athleticFive women on the roster are filed athletic, and in every case there is something behind the word. A park loop several mornings a week, a boxing gym off Mare Street, a pool at York Hall, a boat on...5 on the list List 10ageEarly twentiesEverybody on this site is an adult and over eighteen, and this band is simply the youngest end of the book. Six of the women here have their early twenties stated plainly on their own pages, and...10 on the list List 11ageLate twentiesSeven women on the roster have their late twenties printed plainly on their own pages, and those seven are the ones set out below. The shortlist runs wider, because the middle of the twenties...14 on the list List 12ageThirties and beyondFour names, and between them they take more of the long dinners on this site than the rest of the roster put together. Two of them turned thirty this year and two are into their early thirties,...4 on the list

Notice 02

Four hair shortlists

Blondes is four names and runs from wavy through to caramel. Brunettes is the largest page on this site at fifteen, sorted by shade rather than thrown together. Raven haired is the six with properly black hair, and auburn and red is three, which is the honest number rather than a flattering one.

Notice 03

Five for frame

Petite collects the small framed end, statuesque everyone from 172 cm upwards, and between them sit curvaceous, slim and slender and toned and athletic. Frame is described here, never scored. Nobody is on one of these pages for being smaller or larger than somebody else, and the tape is the only thing that decided which page she landed on.

Notice 04

Three bands of age

Early twenties, late twenties and thirties and beyond. The bands are a sorting aid rather than a measurement, and the women right in the middle of their twenties fall on one side or the other of a line that is not really there. Her own page carries the honest version and is the one to trust.

Notice 05

What none of these pages claim

That any shortlist is better than another one. That a number tells you what an evening will be like. Reading a page here is worth ten minutes; reading three bios on the board is worth more, because temperament is the thing that shows up in a room and it does not fit in a category name.

Notice 06

From a shortlist to an hour

Pick one name and one alternative, then write to booking with the hour, the address and how long you want. Nell answers with an arrival time in writing. The figures are the same whichever shortlist you came in through, they start at £250, and the whole ladder is public on rates.

Last call

The trains stop. We do not.

One message with the date, the time and the postcode, and the rest of the night is arranged quietly, anywhere from Hoxton down to the basin at Limehouse.

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