#VIntageFashion

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David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve in 'The Hunger', 1983

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Marlene Dietrich first wore this feather boa with a matching hat as Bijou in the 1940 film 𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔.   The boa was later worn by Marilyn Monroe as “The Girl” in 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑰𝒕𝒄𝒉 in 1955.   Like our content? Please share it with a friend! Bit.ly/Acces171    

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1969

Paco Rabanne

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Yes, Dame Diana Rigg, everything about you – including that wonderfully Mod wristwatch of yours – confirmed your exquisite taste.

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LFW 2023 February.

[callmedaisy]

Really been loving vintage sewing patterns lately… looking for lots of ruffly patterns to make beautifully eyelet dresses from! Gingham as well :-)

The construction of vintage clothes will always remain superior in my mind than to more modern garments. With exceptions always!

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Mel Ferrer directed the color film Green Mansions in 1958. Here, Audrey Hepburn played Rima, a jungle girl who is destroyed when she gets in touch with civilization.

Although Audrey headlined the movie alongside Anthony Perkins, it was considered unsuccessful. Mel was even accused of having used Green Mansions merely as an excuse to show his wife in a good light with endless wide-screen closeups.

Photography by Bob Willougby

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[professorpski]

“Soon the knitter herself will visualize a thousand of other ways in which a motif can be used, and so fave at her disposal an exhaustible variety of fabrics. Thick fabrics or thin fabrics, patterned fabrics or plain fabrics, those blazing in colour or decorated with beads, she can make fabric imitated fur (Looped Knitting), Lace, Picot, Filet, or Crochet, and even cloque and woven fabric, by a mere change of technique. Every ornament known to dressmaking can be imitated, even hemstitching and buttons!”

When Mary Thomas wrote this in 1945 in Mary Thomas’s Book of Knitting Patterns when dressmaking was the most common craft women learned. Circular knitting, which she called seamless knitting, was viewed as peasant knitting, interesting historically, but not something most women likely to do. So, comparing knitting to dressmaking was a compliment. In fact, sewing pieces of knitted fabric was taken for granted and Thomas offered the same garment block or garment schematic that we see in dressmaking in the section explaining how to plan an entirely original sweater.

Similarly, Thomas urged her the reader to imagine new ways of patterning a knitted fabric through her choice of stitches. Every section of the book suggests how variations might be introduced to the stitches she explains. She valued the experimentation and imagination which created the stitches she taught and clearly saw yet more to be invented.

You can find this and other Thomas books at Dover Publications: https://store.doverpublications.com/0486228185.html

[dandyvampydyke]

Carabiner lesbian 🤝 Chatelaine lesbian

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A voice said, Look me in the stars and tell me truly, men of earth, if all the soul-and-body scars were not too much to pay for birth.

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This distinctive and colorful mod-style dress was created for the 1965 third season of 𝑳𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆, where Angela Cartwright wore it as Penny Robinson.   Costumes for the series were designed by the art director Paul Zastupnevich, and executed by @westerncostumecompany   In a 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒐𝒈 interview, Paul Zastupnevich said:   "...I wanted each individual to have their own color, so you could instantly tell who they were from a distance. I tailored the hues to the characters because certain colors make you feel good, while others make you feel threatened.”     Zastupnevich even had spacey names for the colors he chose, such as “meteor red,” “comet green,” “solar yellow,” “asteroid green,” “orbital purple,” and “jet pink.”     Most of the colorful costumes from the show have made their way to auction and are now in the hands of private collectors. This piece, however, was likely to have still been hanging on a rack at a costume house because it was pulled for use on Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla Presley in the 2023 film Priscilla.   Find out more on our website! bit.ly/PostEd261

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1975

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Elvis at the Knickerbocker Hotel reading up on the latest Jayne Mansfield recording, circa 1956. Photo by Ed Braslaff.

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Audrey Hepburn in Ondine, which opened in New York’s 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers Theatre) on 18 February 1954. It ran for 157 performances.

For her performance in Ondine, Audrey received glowing reviews. The New York Times called her “magical” and “rapturously beautiful.” She received Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway, more commonly known as the Tony Award, for Ondine in March 1954.