#mid century fashion

[costumedump]

Costumes For Cailee Spaeny As Priscilla

Priscilla

Designed By Stacey Battat

Art Of Costume Design In Film Exhibition (2024)

ASU FIDM

[corvusclearing]

Actress/singer Hailey Kilgore.

[huevos-dot-eggos]

My first post is a wipp

Anyway, I'm working on it, I am planning to polish this art piece! And of course give more context jajaja

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It's a work in progress, but with time I will giving more information on Pessimistic. My plan is to make this into a graphic novel soooooooon.

[stricklandvintagewatches]

Mid-century Movado watch poster featuring an elegant couple: she in her feather hat and gold cocktail timepiece; he in his pinstriped suit, driving gloves and oversized wristwatch, obviously delighted the other arrived on time. The caption reads “Exact! Joie de se rencontrer a la meme minute” or “Exact! The joy of meeting at the same time”; Switzerland, 1947.

[kaasi-legacy-designs]

My new pretties from Besame Cosmetics.

1937 Fairest Red and Ella Fitzgerald Savoy with a retractable lip brush that provides my peer-reviewed autistic brain some joy.

[toongrrl-blog]

My Style Analysis: Cyclical Iconic Fashion and a Missed Prom

Originally posted on Reddit

Anyone notice something about Devi's prom dress? Something retro?

The chiffon, long flowing dress, the neckline, the ruffles, the florals and pinks feel very retro. Like very 1970s (look I know per ShopYourTV that it's a recent find from Nordstrom's) maybe 70s does 30s...

In fact Devi's dress slightly reminded me of Marge Simpson's prom dress in "The Way We Was" which was set in 1974, 49 years before Nalini almost had a heart attack seeing her daughter and Ben in bed together (albeit with clothes on). It's all there: the pink, the apparently lightweight fabric (chiffon or rayon or polyester or a combination, that was a staple of the era), the ruffles around the neck. Marge's pink dress (surely from Gunne Sax, which was fondly remembered by Boomers and Gen Xers alike) and Homer's baby blue tuxedo were so iconic that they were made into figurines.

In fact Devi's dress falls into good company with some other examples I listed in a old post on Tumblr about this frilly, utterly feminine aesthetic in fact I want to show another Mad Men example and one from the 1930s period piece The Group (1966).

Every outfit looks so floaty here and these were promos for episodes set in 1970, thankfully our girls up there have much happier endings than the former Mrs. Drapers.

Here is your 1930s example with The Group, which focuses on graduates of a Seven Sisters college as they navigate adult life in Depression era America and the patriarchy (it's rough as hell). The brunette in black is future Lucille Bluth, the late Jessica Walter. Bonum est mulier.

Eleanor's look sort of reminds me of: Cher, Selena, and Liz Taylor. All very iconic women who followed their passions boldly and became icons without blindly following trends set for either fashion or for their gender.

(EDIT: Much better example)

As for Fabi? Well the tuxedo is pure androgyny. Calling to the OG ladies in a suit, Bessie Smith (EDIT: Gladys Bentley) and Marlene Dietrich and Annie Lennox

All these women flouted restrictions regarding gender expression admidst the jeers of conservatives, pearl-clutchers, white supremacists, Jim Crow, fatphobia, and one even told Hitler to go fuck himself (okay maybe not those words but you get the gist).

The red may be a call back to predominantly African-American men in the media donning a red suit, as noted in u/eve_salmon's "A Cinematic Guide to The Weekend Pt. 3", Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr. (known for a flashy yet very traditionally masculine sense of style) donned a red suit for the film Poor Devil, whom like Fabi, was Black and queer in an era that was even more racist and queerphobic than the present. We also see Richard Pryor (comedian for those not in the know) donning a red suit along with Joe Pesci in Goodfellas and Casino. The red is likely a sign of pure confidence and defiance, keep in mind that Pesci's characters and Pryor (as well as Davis) grew up in eras where looking a white person in the eye can get a Black person made past tense to use a TikTok phrase and where Italian Americans were still looked down upon, so dressing well and in a manner that commands attention was a act of resistance.

Both examples of Marginalized Men in Red Suits and Gender-Bending Women Looking Sharp-Dressed, speaks well to Fabiola's own development as a character and taking ownership of her identity in a world that tells you to be a laundry list of things to be acceptable (be girly, be outgoing, be into pop culture, be straight, listen to your parents, focus on what boys like, fade into the background, wear uncomfy formalwear that ain't you) and points for the series highlighting HBCUs as up there with the Ivies; where the Ivies represent mainstream power, the HBCUs represent how a community managed to carve their own space to let it's members thrive and accomplish more (also while Princeton waited until 1969 and Columbia until 1983 to accept women, Howard been doing that since it's founding!), what better place for Fabiola whose journey is about owning her sense of self?

What can Iconic Lady Joan Holloway say, well I can think of her Bonwit Teller shopping spree where she decides what to take with her fabulous black dress with ostritch feather cuffs: "I'll take the boots, the tan heels, the chiffon (in a cooing voice), the red (even more cooing), and this (to her flamboyant dress)", in other words, she approves.

[juliesandothings]

Four from a book about Halle's Department Store in Cleveland, Ohio

[itwasnotadream]

fashion history girlies i need ur help

what is the hat that Vera-Ellen wears in this scene called??? It’s such a cute style and I’m usually not a hat person. I tried googling it but couldn’t find anything specific. If anyone could tell me what this style of hat is I’ll love you forever!!! Merci!!

[paletapessoal]

Shawl, early 1850s, black Chantilly lace backed in sage green silk crepe

[frostedmagnolias]

Woman's Evening Dress

about 1865

Made by Mme. Roger (Paris, France)

MFA Boston

[thegroovyarchives]

60's Sunglasses From the May, 1969 issue of Woman's Day magazine

[historical-fashion-polls]

submitted by @emily-mooon 🤍🩶🖤

[corvusclearing]

Diana Sands, 1963.

📸 Carl Van Vechten

[leulahart]

Some more pre-canon doodles!

Alternative title: Katniss and her blondies :)

[stealingpotatoes]

found this design wip from last summer and i've never felt more cheated in my life. why did my past self deprive me of more 18th century padmés by not finishing this

[kaasi-legacy-designs]

I found a better color match for my Poison Garden rayon dad shirt project.

Buttons are from Hobby Lobby as it was the closest fabric store.