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[voguefashion]

Truman Capote's Swans

"To be one of Truman's Swans, it wasn't enough that a woman be elegant, beautiful, and rich. She had to be amusing." -Laurence Leamer, Capote's Women

Babe Paley (1915-1978), photographed by John Rawlings for American Vogue, February 1, 1946.

Slim Keith (1917-1990), photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, February 1, 1949.

Lee Radziwill (1933-2019), photographed by Cecil Beaton for American Vogue, March 15, 1962.

C.Z. Guest (1920-2003), photographed by Irving Penn for American Vogue, March 15, 1954.

Marella Agnelli (1927-2019), photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, October 1, 1967.

Gloria Guinness (1912-1980), photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, January 1, 1949.

Pamela Harriman (1920-1997), photographed by Horst P. Horst for American Vogue, September 1, 1962.

[cleopatragirlie]

𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐥𝐲, 𝐕𝐢𝐯𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐥𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭 (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟖)

[rpfshippingpolls]

⚠️ DON’T START DISCOURSE ABOUT RPF IN THE NOTES!! YOU WILL BE BLOCKED IF YOU DO SO ⚠️

Do you ship it?

No reason submitted

[fayegonnaslay]

Vogue Fashion Editor Barbara 'Babe' Cushing Mortimer (a.k.a. Babe Paley) and her two children from her marriage to Stanley Mortimer Jr.: Stanley Grafton Mortimer III and Amanda Mortimer.

Vogue, April 1944.

[willowwitchreputation]

While Clara Bow is peaking interest, here are some additional FASCINATING and awesome women of that era to check out on Wikipedia/books if you’re ever bored, or consume their art if interested:

-Josephine Baker (!!!)

-Zelda Fitzgerald

-Ruth Etting

-Bessie Smith

-Henrietta Bingham

-Helen Kane (The real Betty Boop)

-Sippie Wallace

-Ma Rainey

-Sophie Tucker

- Lady Diana Cooper

-Tallulah Bankhead

-Annette Hanshaw

-Trixie Smith

-Mamie Smith

-Ethel Waters

-Victoria Spivey

-Greta Garbo

-Joan Crawford

That’s a good start, but there is so much more.

[eccentricks]

An English debutante’s scrapbook, 1939.

[thevirgodoll]

excerpt from my new blog post 💗

[saskia2233]

[septembergold]

Fanny v. Arnstein © Illustrierte Monatsschrift 1865

[orchideennacht]

Jane Derby

Collection Automne / Hiver 1958-59

[cleopatragirlie]

❀ 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐥 𝐛𝐲 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐝 (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓) ❀

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Bride Wore Red (1937, Dorothy Arzner)

11/27/22

[tox1c-h3art]

Love Paris&Nicole! 💋

[fayegonnaslay]

LIFE Magazine "Young Leaders of New York Society"

December 8, 1958

"Cuban Gala Night committee" gathers at Mrs. Winston Guest's New York Apartment

[frownyalfred]

a nosy socialite at an event, leaning down: “Oh Richard, it must be so hard for you in that house, what with Bruce’s…proclivities for nighttime guests.”

Dick Grayson, fully aware at age 13 that Bruce Wayne is a Loser™ whose only “nighttime guest” is Clark Kent, who comes over to “review cases” with Bruce before/after patrol while both of them awkwardly ignore any and all tension between them: “Something like that.”

[eccentricks]

C.Z. Guest and Consuelo Vanderbilt by Slim Aarons, 1955.