Showing posts with label style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label style. Show all posts

9/3/10

A Short Post


As the summer heat and humidity fade away, so too do the shorts. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy a post about them. Some people (me included) should never wear shorts. Other people seem to have been born to wear shorts.








Janet Leigh

9/1/10

The Future's Getting Brighter


Martha Hyer
Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale

Stefania Sandrelli
Bardot
Bardot (above and below)
Bardot

Susannah York
(You can also squint at past bright futures here and here and here.)

8/23/10

Breakaway Dress

Breakaway Dress
Here are some Life magazine pictures of a "breakaway dress." It's cute, but probably not as much fun as, say, a tear-away dress, an edible dress, or a tattered dress.
Breakaway Dress
tearaway dress
Breakaway Dress
Breakaway Dress
Breakaway Dress
Breakaway Dress
bikini

6/22/10

Cute But Remarkably Dumb


Life magazine ran a feature about these Florida girls cutting up their towels and making them into bathing suits. Uh-huh. Sounds pretty normal.




Not that I'm complaining or anything...

6/9/10

How to Look like a Movie Star


From Photoplay magazine.




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