Isadora Duncan who was a dancer and an instructor was born on may 26, 1877 in San Francisco, California. She had an interesting instinct with regards to fashion that supplemented her free-moving dance steps and unique personality.
She was seen as a feminist because she had two daughters outside wedlock fathered by different men and didn’t see the need to be married. She later got married to a poet, Sergey Aleksandrovich in 1922 who committed suicide in late 1920s as a result of complicated mental health challenges.
Those days it wasn't normal for ladies to drive, yet she was extremely advanced and needed to learn, so she chose to take her driving lessons in a convertible.
The man who was teaching her to drive proposed she wear a cape to shield her shoulders from the cold, however she declined, preferring her long, hand-painted silk scarf which she hung dazzlingly around her neck.
So, Isadora sat in the car, as her tutor trained her on how to turn on the car. As soon as he put his foot to the pedal and started to move, tragedy struck.
Her scarf flew behind her and abruptly became trapped in the wheel of the vehicle, the rest actually folded over her neck, then her body was hauled out of the vehicle and before anybody could reach out and cut or pull the scarf from her head, she was lying dead close to the convertible.