Tuesday, June 1, 2010
1930's Fashion - Dress Style
A Gallery of Fashion Detail from 1937
A typical couture detail of 1930's vintage fashion
1. Be fashion wise - sequin flower, high neckline, slim sleeve, sweater-type bodice
2. Tea dancing pump: street- length skirt : Chanel bracelet.
3.Your figure will be outlined like a dressmaker's dummy in this tubelike tunic.
4. You'll see many variations of this Molyneux bandaged waistline, as with soutache.
5. Accents of Persian lamb on your coat - small collar, pockets.
6. Velvet beret, the profile type, jutting up and forward - this is a hat that is easy to wear!
7. The soft hat with side height for wear with many kinds of costumes - with no age limit.
8. A Hat with a plume; a string of golden hearts to wind around your wrist - for tea dancing.
9. Persian muff and fez, for your new black coat that has no fur !
Gallery of Fashion Detail - by Ruth Mary Packard / Copyright Glamourdaze 2010
{home inspiration: old world glamour}
{images: scans, photography by john granen for house beautiful june 2010, interview by lisa cregan, bathroom design by carrie hayden}
Lovely Leigh
Leigh Lezark on the cover of Vogue Turkey {via}
I love her style...
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{you can't really see it here, but I love Poppy's bag}
In Matthew Williamson {via}
Start Your Day With Serial - 13 to Life Blog Book Tour
Here's your chance to discover the new novel 13 to Life, a story about high school, romance and werewolves. First time novelist Shannon Delany developed the book out of a winning serialized textnovel that she created, and has now launched a unique blog tour she calls Start Your Day with Serial to introduce her novel to the world. Each day of the tour, which kicks off today, a new blog will feature an excerpt from the book. Look for my turn and an interview with the author later on in the month. If you miss a day hop over to Shannon's blog (link above) and check the link to the blog tour calendar in the sidebar.
If you follow along and comment on 13 of the blogs that are hosting snippets of the book you will be entered to win some great prizes including one lucky winner who will receive a royal amber pendant, tote, pietersite jeweled bookmark, stuffed wolf, 13 to Life mouspad, pen and signed poster, as well as a personalized copy of the book. Watch http://Twitter.com/Shannon_Delany to know where to hop to next.
Click Here for the first excerpt. Enjoy!
Revlon and the Romance of Color
Charles Revson, founder of Revlon Cosmetics, was a genius at marketing. He understood that the way to sell more cosmetics was to entice women with romance, allure, and a touch of class. Revson was the one who came up with the idea of introducing new colors in lipsticks and nail polishes twice a year, to co-ordinate with fashion trends. Where before, a woman would buy one lipstick and use it until it was gone, now she had to have a wardrobe of lipstick colors to match different outfits and occasions.
The real genius, however, was the introduction of alluring names. Red wasn't red - it was "Fire and Ice" or "Fatal Apple".
Pink wasn't just pink - it was "Pink Lightening" or "Acapulco Pink".
Here is a television commercial for Revlon's newest color for 1960, "Berry Bon Bon". Even though the ad is in black and white, can't you just "see" the rich red/pink shade? And don't you want to own it? By the way, "Berry Bon Bon" was one of Revlon's best selling colors, and was in the line for years and years. It has been discontinued, but you can still find this now rare color online at a couple of places.
And if you must have a sparkling "theatre ensemble" like the one shown from Bergdorf Goodman at 55 seconds in, may I suggest this evening coat and gown set at my website? It's not perfect, but is a steal of a deal at just $75.
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