Showing posts with label Marion Davies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marion Davies. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 July 2013

The 1930's beach pose


Diane Ellis and Carole Lombard via fuckyeahmodernflapper.tumblr


via valentino vamp tumblr

via adeline'sattic.tumblr



Muriel Evans, 1932, via pasttopresent.com

 
via adlinesattic.tumblr

 
via qsdaydream tumblr


Mary Carlisle via pasttopresent.com

via valentino vamp tumblr

via valentino vamp tumblr

via valentino vamp tumblr

Eileen Percy, Marion Davies, Dorothy Mackaill via adeline's attic tumblr


































Wednesday, 27 March 2013

In pure crocus fashion



 
Here I am, dressing to imitate a sugar sifter...Err, no, it's just that my take on spring is someone else's take on autumn. Still, you ought to appreciate the solid deco streak. I do. I mean, I'm the only one that does. This is one of my favourite outfits of late, worn at work and out and about, yet the best I managed to squeeze out of someone was "God you're colourful today". I did wear it with a green necklace at the time, just to make sure everyone was getting the reference. Ha!

Still, I continue to be bemused by it, as much as I am by my hair in the first day of a set. This is how it looks nowadays (I've had it cut in a shorter bob at the beginning of February) - once those rollers come out. Welcome to the 20's afro of some sorts! Relieved to be in fancy company here, with the likes of Clara Bow, Claudette Colbert, Marion Davies and Marie Prevost. It's always a consolation to find that others have gone through your pain too...:)






xx That's all xx





Tuesday, 5 June 2012

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.






Saturday, 25 February 2012

An early to mid 20's silhouette

I promised the other day to bore you with numerous photos of this outfit, but one more will suffice in order to make my claim to an earlier style than I wear usually, dating to the first half of the 1920's. I love this period, but don't get much of a chance to emulate it. The look I've been inspired by in this particular instance is rooted as far back as the 1922-1923, albeit in a heavier, more voluminous manner that its slightly later correspondents.

L'Officiel de la Mode, 1922

 In only a matter of a couple of years silhouettes became more streamlined, with everything, including hats, diminishing in volume. With the increased importance of making clothes that would be practical, casual and sports minded, this was a natural process. Plaid was a perennial favorite though, as you can see below, great in this 1923 coat as well as in the 1924 skirts that follow.



The checkered fabric and side button detail of my 50's Boreva skirt, as well as the awkward fit at the waist (I probably just don't fill it properly), came in handy when trying to suggest similarities with the skirts shown here. These images are placed in 1925/1926, which is as recent as I could find this look still going.



Next I would love to try the variation with a cardigan and tie from above - Marion here did it so well! - or with a nice long open vest with pockets and belt...Hm, I can just about see some more knitting projects on the horizon...


 
Marion Davies via missclarabow tumblr