#VIntageFashion

[margaretcruzemark]

Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly. Their beauty shakes me who was once serene, straight through my heart the wound is quick and keen.

[the-golden-purple-box]

1969

Paco Rabanne

[stricklandvintagewatches]

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

[aagdolla]

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!

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

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

[violafoxvintage]

[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

[envystars]

[margaretcruzemark]

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

[the-golden-purple-box]

1975

[stricklandvintagewatches]

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

[pocketfulofelviss]

“When I brought Elvis in something that he really loved to eat, he was adorable, sitting up against the pillows, cross-legged in his men’s pajamas. He had this cute little dance he did in bed, where he rocked from side to side, sometimes with his eyes closed, with this beatific smile on his face, almost like Stevie Wonder. That’s how much he loved his favorite foods. It tasted so good to him and made him so supremely content. I can still see him rocking left to right in bliss, enjoying his food.” (Thompson, 2016: 86-87) * #elvispresley #presley #theking #graceland #elvis #smile #love #idol #music #iconic #vintage #style #classy #vintagefashion #kingofmusic #rockandroll #sideburns #blessedsoul #rip #elvisthepelvis #memphis #tupelo #soldier #elvislegacy #epe https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDrToQLkz1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ivydoomkitty]

Happy Valentines Day and Singles Awareness Day to all! Whether you have a special someone, or are a single, remember that it is not someone else that completes you. You complete you. Find love in yourself, always. I'm spending my Singles Awareness Day practicing a lot of self care and love, patience, and kindness toward myself. Love yourself. Know your value. Know your worth. And never, ever let anyone treat you any less than the Queen you damn well know you are. 🔥 Spicy wardrobe by @whatkatiediduk Photo by @ncastro_photo Muah @misschrissylyn #selflove #selfcare #valentinesday #valentine #happyvalentinesday #vday #bettiepage #singlesawarenessday #love #vintagefashion #pinupgirl #pinupmodel #plussizemodel #photography #fyp #fypシ #spicyfood #spicy https://www.instagram.com/p/CoqACIlydcT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[audreyhepburninblackandwhite]

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.