#NOT 1931

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Dracula (1931)

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I don't think this can possibly be from 1931. The fashions are all wrong, the hair is all wrong, and the makeup is all wrong for 1931.

Also Horst P. Horst did not joint the staff of Vogue until 1932.

A Google reverse image search tells me these are "Models in Eta Evening Gowns" from the September 15th, 1948 issue of Vogue, which seems to track. The fashions and the hair (and the lighting and the colors and the camera work) fit 1948 pretty well.

However, the error is understandable, since Vogue magazine itself got this all wrong, labeling this image and several other pages from the same issue as being from 1931 in a recent article here, even though several of the pages they have labeled 1931 are visibly dated September 15, 1948.

It just goes to show that anyone can make an error, even the venerable editors at Vogue. And if something doesn't quite look right, check it out.

(If the link doesn't work, the article cited is "American Originals: Unsung Talents Who Are Finally Getting Their Due at the Met in 'In America: An Anthology of Fashion'" by Laird Borrelli-Persson, dated April 29, 2022)

New Fashions for the Adult Years. Three shades of evening grey chosen especially for three shades of grey hair.

Vogue, March 15, 1931

Photographer: Horst P. Horst

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Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula DRACULA (1931) dir. Tod Browning

Ben Daniels as Santiago INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | 2.02

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I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.

Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

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FRANKENSTEIN dir. James Whale, 1931

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A moment ago, I stumbled upon a most amazing phenomenon. Something so incredible, I mistrust my own judgment. Look.

DRACULA 1931 — dir. Tod Browning

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The Crimson Clown's Threat - art by John A. Coughlin (1931)

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Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

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JOAN CRAWFORD in DANCE, FOOLS, DANCE (1931) dir. Harry Beaumont

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Dracula (1931)

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Sylvia Sidney and Gary Cooper — City Streets (1931) dir. Rouben Mamoulian

[nic-coughlan]

you really got to hand it to william shatner like he really said before i leave this stupid planet im going to canonise that pairing you constantly badger me about and that's beautiful it really is

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St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Missouri, August 11, 1931

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Josephine Baker in her dressing room at the Casino de Paris in Paris, 1931.

Photos by Boris Lipnitzki