zondag 20 september 2015

DECADENTIE JAREN TWINTIG

likejosephinebaker: Paris 1920s Fabulous candid of Jospehine Baker I don’t think I’ve ever seen…chap next to her looks like Adolphe Menjou, who Josephine apparently liked? Wonder if it’s him?
Josephine  Baker







I don’t think I can adequately express my admiration for this gown. And I’m sure I’ve seen that headdress in a Mucha painting.







Harry Atwell photo, girl at Wilson Beach Chicago. Note those rolled stockings and beach shoes!



Silent film actress Claire Anderson (May 8, 1891 – March 23, 1964) - one of the original Mack Sennett bathing belles. 



The Ford Sisters, Dora and Mabel. Dora and Mabel were originally part of a tap dancing group, The Four Fords, with their brothers Max and Edwin (a third brother, Jonny, also danced but did not tour with his siblings - his style was more ballroom). From an early age they learned types of dance including clog, tap and soft shoe. They achieved popularity around 1910 when tap dancing was evolving as a style and metal was added to tap shoes. The group were active in vaudeville shows until 1913 when they ceased as a joint act, although Mabel and Dora continued to tour as the Ford Sisters into the 1920s.



Egyptian Revival, 1920s style!



A 1920s Columbine



maudelynn: Edna Best, by Dorothy Wilding c.1925 via ebay.com



stalinwasabasicbitch: dollmixture: American actress Claire Luce with a gaggle of boudoir dolls, 1920s Sydneyflapper, I have to thank you for introducing me to boudoir dolls. I was recently reading Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune and the author commented on this photograph of Huguette (with boudoir doll in hand):  “Huguette’s attachment to her dolls was indeed unusual. A photograph survives of a Clark dinner party in a restaurant, with a group including Anna and Huguette, who looks to be about sixteen, so this would be about 1922. Next to one of the men in the photo is Huguette, wearing a party dress and a strand of pearls, her eyes fixed on something in the distance. In her lap, she holds a doll with well-coiffed coal-black hair, wearing its own party dress.” It may not have been so ‘unusual’ had the author known about the fashion for boudoir dolls out and about! Thank you for giving me that info :)  What a fabulous image - the Huguette Clark book is on my reading list. And you’re right - it does seem less odd to see one in this context if one knows that they often had a “mascot” status and weren’t made for children. I had a chuckle when I saw the image of Claire Luce with her dolls - if I didn’t keep my Boudoir Doll fascination sternly in check and limited to handful of them, I’d wind up buried like her. Looks like there are some nice silk faces in the bunch…possibly even Lencis?







nitratediva: Pina Menichelli in Tigre Reale (1916).



dialnfornoir: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)



Nita Naldi returning to America from Europe on the Ile de France, 1927



Parasols - we need to see more of them today! A practical sunshade.



Feeling Romantic, Valentine?



1920s postcard D'awwwww…but are you sure you don’t want to put those cigarettes down for just a moment?



Adjusting stockings, 1920s. As someone who wears vintage hosiery, can I just say that the need to adjust your hose while out and about happens far, far less than vintage erotica suggests. If your stockings fit properly and you have good garter straps (attached to a belt, girdle, corset etc), they stay put.



mudwerks: Olive Borden by Max Munn Autrey (by Art & Vintage)



nitratediva: Dolores del Rio preens in some 1920s candid footage.


Nola Dolberg vamps her cigarette - “Girl Shy” (1924)



maudelynn: Marie Prevost  via via http://silenceisplatinum.blogspot.com



stoertebaker: Budapest 1920(s)  found on Ebay



oldmoviemagic: Cambridge Undergraduates c. 1926








castaroundvintage: Edna Best, 1925. Alex Stewart ‘Sasha’.



Real photo postcard available on eBay







stationaryweed: sydneyflapper: smokefall: bashi-bazouk: peppercyanide: sisterwolf: via I never even c wow How did they get away with that AH I LOVE THIS What do you mean how did they get away with it? History isn’t one straight line progressing towards a liberal society. Look how much Americans attitudes have changed between 1980 and today. 1980 was the first time most very religious people voted, they abstained before that at the behest of their churches. Now they dictate policy at every election. In my family photo album there are pictures from the 20s of a woman called ‘uncle bob’. She dressed in men’s clothing, and had a ‘companion’. This was a rough industrial town, they were working class, nobody cared. It was her business. This is why politics is important - the moment you think everything is better today than it was in the past, you let other people take control of the direction society goes in - with you sitting back presuming we’re going forwards. reblogged for fabulousness Reblogging for fabulousness and for the commentary. I’m reminded of some of the progressive circles of the Weimar Republic, who produced a rich and varied interpretation of queer culture (I have a friend, a trained opera singer, who researches and sings some of the songs from this particular era which is why it springs to mind). And that was right around when Hitler arrived on the scene. It’s a shop, it’s not real, oh my god PEOPLE There are lots of interesting queer/trans photos from that time if you look, you don’t need fake ones.  Apologies I didn’t catch that! I was thinking of some of the bona fide images of similar subject matter from the Victorian and Edwardian period - and into the 1920s - and didn’t think this was beyond the scope of possibility…my fault for reblogging without following back to the source, which has some awesome photo manips.



louiseeliasimon: stars



solo-vintage: 1920s pyjamas



wasabasscoburlesque: Berlin Cabaret Beautifully staged…I’d love to know if this is a genuine vintage piece or a pastiche. There are just a couple of elements that make me thinks it’s a very well done more contemporary image - would love to know for certain.







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