In 1927, Isadora Duncan, the U.S. ballet dancer, was killed in a car in Nice, France.

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Exchanging cards has morphed from a choreographed ritual, as easy as a simple foxtrot, to an improvisational interpretive dance that would challenge Isadora Duncan.

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So it was women of wealth and social autonomy who wore them, clients like Isadora Duncan and Peggy Guggenheim, Marchesa Casati and Gloria Vanderbilt.

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