Showing posts with label 1920's scarf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920's scarf. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

The bohemian scarf look


I bet you that, through the crystal ball of the last entry, you could see exactly what's coming: a look that has been firing not only my imagination, but that of many others and, since the beginnings of film, with Hollywood itself as a main contributor to creating a fad for exotic temptresses and their sultry ways...
A compound was born, out of mixed ethnic influences not only of gypsy background but coming also from various and exotic travel destinations such as Middle East, North Africa or Mexico (let alone the wonderful land of imagination), melted down to an inch of their life and whipped up in the most exciting hybrid: pure show. 
In spite of or perhaps due to its obvious artifice, this look, referred to as exotic, bohemian or sometimes gypsy (with or without cue from reality), responds to my theatrical taste. Not only that, but it is built around a much loved accessory: the good old scarf.



Jean White, via Doctor Macro

Theda Bara, the epitome of  the dark vamp, via ibitemyownteeth tumblr

Myrna Darby, via Doctor Macro

Carmel Myers, via Doctor Macro, the very pastiche of gypsy as created by Hollywood

 Lupe Velez and Dolores Del Rio, July 1928
 via legrandcirque tumblr


Clara Bow photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston, via adeline's attic tumblr

Mary Brian, via Dotor Macro

 
Pola Negri via Valentino vamp tumblr

more Pola Negri, via gypsyeyesblog tumblr 

 
actress and opera singer Grace Moore, via valentino vamp tumblr

A lovely lady modelling a stunning scarf on etsy

Joan Blondell, via Doctor Macro


Bohemian scarf look on the catwalk (a previous collection of Galliano's, I think)

My own trials and tribulations...also seen here.



The sporty scarf look


Dorothy Sebastian, via Doctor Macro

Here I am at home, looking out the window into the grey and the 13 degrees of this blessed day of June, while perusing in between sighs these most wonderful images of beauty and chic. 
Alas, even if such things such as beauty and chic very remotely achievable, we are as far away from a summer's day as we were in December.

 
Clara Bow, via mandy-rascal tumblr

Dorothy Revier, via valentinovamp tumblr 

 I love scarves and the way they were worn in the 20's and 30s, transforming casual and sports outfits in effortlessly glamorous gear.  
Note to self: try the cleaner, simpler, sporty look this summer (if you get ANY chance...)


Marion Davies, via tresfou tumblr

 Lilian Harvey, via valentinovamp tumblr

Reese Whitherspoon in Water for Elephants

Myrna Loy, where sporty meets bohemian.

 Eva Green in Cracks.

Juno Temple too wears a scarf marvelously, but this is all I was able to find.
More a band than a scarf, but looks great!

Your truly, with my best silly face
Photo taken September 2011 (one of the very last times I've seen any sun :()


...The way I'd really want to look like, should I be an illustration...
But I'm trespassing next post's territory...you wait and see.