Category: Fashion
Get tropical with Miss Bamboo’s 40s and 50s inspired Pacific Wear
If you’re into all things Tiki, Americana and exotic 1940s and 50s-inspired, you will love Miss Bamboo. The UK-based online shop stocks a wide range of beautiful Forties and Fifties Hawaiian, Mexican and Asian style dresses as well as shoes and other accessories such as jewellery, fans and bamboo parasols. We really love the orange [...]
Inspirational gallery: Lena Horne
Lena Horne, the most prominent African-American star of the Forties and Fifties silver screen with the heartbreakingly beautiful face and voice to match, was the first black performer to be signed by a Hollywood studio. Horn fought fervently over the decades against racial discrimination. A life, then, not so simple, but so significant, it’s impossible not to [...]
Vintage style inspiration: Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo chose herself as the object of most of her paintings, exploring her gender and identity through her art. Her clothes and looks were an important prop, not only in her portraits but also in her life. Jen Newby takes a look at a woman whose style continues to fascinate us today. Frida Kahlo made [...]
What are you wearing: beautiful 50s florals
This week’s ‘what are you wearing’ picture comes from reader Sonya. Her beautiful Fifties floral dress is rather special – it was a gift, from Jet Rag in West Hollywood, when Sonya was diagnosed with hereditary invasive breast cancer. The dress remained unworn in her closet for over a year while she battled cancer. Now, [...]
The rise and fall of Mae Murray
Silent movie stars seem to have been forever falling from grace. Hollywood Hubris ran rampant through the paradisic Beverly Hills in the Twenties, and none of them seemed to learn from the crash-and-burn antics of their contemporaries. The coming of sound is often invoked as the wrecker of many a liquid-eyed silent star, but many [...]
New hair-setting gadget: The Sculpture Pin Curler
If you wear your hair in a pre-Sixties style, pin-curling your hair is a relatively easy way of setting it. New gadet, The Sculpture Pin Curler, aims to make the curling even easier. The Curler is essentially a plastic tube with tiny ‘teeth’ on both ends. You simply hook the end of your hair into [...]
