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Dolores Del Rio 1937

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One Dress a Day Challenge

Monochrome July

Roberta / Irene Dunne as Stephanie

This movie ends with a giant fashion show, started off in grand style by Irene Dunne is this stunning fur-trimmed dress while she sings "Lovely to Look At." It really makes her look like a princess, which of course her character is. I love the way the enormous collar/wrap frames her head and shoulders like a cloud, and the contrast with the tightly buttoned waist and tight sleeves. The dress material also shimmers subtly when it catches the light as she moves.

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Marlene Dietrich, 1935

Home movie footage filmed by Gilbert Roland at the home of Dolores del Rio and Cedric Gibbons

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At this point if someone asks me why I like him I will just say it's the vibe. The bi-vibe.

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Jetta Goudal c. 1928

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Behind the scenes: Conrad Veidt with Paul Graets and director Lothar Mendes on the set of Jew Suss (1934).

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Lady Hamilton (1921)

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Alastair (Baron Hans Henning Voigt) - Book illustrations for Les liaisons dangereuses

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Conrad Veidt in Kreuzzug des Weibes (Martin Berger, 1926)

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Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong and Leni Riefenstahl at the Pierre Ball in Berlin, January 1929.  

Photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt

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exit flapper, enter siren, featuring clara bow (who is growing out her bobbed hair), catherine dale owen, dolores del rio, alice white, olive borden, billie dove (1929)

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Great Gatsby Fever : 20 Pieces of Vintage 1920s Lingerie - The Lingerie Addict

1920s satin bra, via The Kyoto Costume Institute

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Magdalena Frackowiak @ John Galliano Fall/Wint 2009

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Gilda Gray, 1925

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1926 c. Blue and gold evening dress, no further information. Pinterest.

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Gilda Gray - a Polish born American actress and dancer who became famous in the U.S. for popularizing a dance called the “shimmy” which became fashionable in 1920s films and theater productions.

During World War II, Gray worked for Poland including raising money. She was decorated by Poland “for her interest and help to her countrymen and her country”