So you want the look of not really caring if it rains. But you can’t just go place a newspaper on your head — what will wet newsprint do to your hair?! You spent hours getting your coif to look like you don’t care! Enter the faux newspaper scarf. Les Lunettes Noires, c1950 (Chris Tselios).
Category: And Some Sort Of A Hat
“And Some Sort Of A Hat” Explained
Choosing a hat is more about how you feel than how it looks, says luxury milliner Mich Dulce. Now we know why there are so many sorts of hats; but we don’t know why Morris Albert didn’t sport dozens of hats…
He’ll Give You The Answer That You’ll Endorse
This terrified-horse mask has been getting around the internet for quite a while, whether you’re scaring roommates or just watching Google Streetview Car drive by. Turns out, it’s a $30 piece of amazing that’s available from Amazon — and the user-contributed photos are awesome beyond words. Go look at the Amazon slideshow, because rather than stealing an Amazon photo I give you this animated GIF instead. Enjoy.
Ruby Lewis In Some Sort Of A Hat
The showgirl from the Midnight Frolic of 1917 featured in a photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston.
Happy New Year!
Vogue, 1930; Baba Beaton, Wanda Baille-Hamilton and Lady Bridget Poullett photographed by Cecil Beaton. (Via.)
Burlesque Clown Love
Bessie Love, as a burlesque clown. Perhaps the only clown that, while a tad creepy, isn’t scaring me to death.
All Dressed-Up & Nowhere To Go
A lovely real photo postcard of a little girl sitting on the steps.
Never Too Late For Santa
You have to post it when you find it.
Photograph from the 1915 Midnight Frolic Ziegfeld Follies production, The Girl from My Home Town:
Most notably in this tableau of feminine beauty is Olive Thomas, seen as “New York Girl” standing beside Muriel Hudson and Margaret Morris, costumes by Cora McGeachy. This important and seductive view which really showcases the fun and allure of the Follies in the 1910s was taken by White Studios, and is a large format hand printed phoograph, never intended for public distribution.
Spoon Mohawk
Lavazza Calendar, 2003
Photographer: Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Model: Hanna Huber