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Model History Suzy Parker
Suzy Parker. THE model of the 1950’s, red hair, green eyes and at 5’10 was told she was too tall. (ha!) Dorian Leigh‘s younger sister, who was the first model to make 200 dollars an hour and 100,000 in...
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Model History Dovima
Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba, better known as Dovima, was one of top model names of the 1950’s. Some would debate she was the model of the 1950’s and not Suzy Parker. I still prefer Suzy’s sister...
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Model History Carmen Dell’Orefice
Carmen Dell’Orefice. (with a name like that, she was bound to be famous) Born in New York in 1931, Carmen was discovered when she was 13 on a bus. (the glamour of it all) Her initial test shots did...
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Vintage Viewing
My new tv love. Pan Am. I know it’s been getting mixed reviews since it aired, but I watched the first 5 episodes online yesterday (call it, research, ah hem) and I’m hooked. I love the characters, I...
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Model History Lisa Fonssagrives
Not a name that really rolls off the old tongue, that’s for sure. Not that I can talk, my actual last name is Inveninato, but it doesn’t matter, because I’m not famous….yet. Anyway, continuing on with...
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Model History Sunny Harnett
Ah. foiled again. I had all these images found and saved upon the ol’laptop for my next post, only to discover that there is next to no information on my model of the week Ms. Sunny Harnett. That will...
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Blog Event Spring/Summer shows 2012
Every now and again I participate in a group blogging event; this time I am joining Kristy Elena on her blog for The Sunglass Hut and the theme of the day is the 2012 S/S shows . I must confess, up...
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Vintage Designer Vera Maxwell
Vera Maxwell. A massive name in the design world from the 40’s to the 70’s and now forgotten about. Her fashion mantra was designing clothing to be both fashionable and functional and in that she most...
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Vintage Hollywood Scandals
Imagine growing up as the adopted daughter of the beautiful starlet Loretta Young. Then you find out you are not actually adopted and that Loretta was in fact your mother, that she had become pregnant...
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Apologies……
I could give you any number of reasons why, without warning, I stopped posting on my blog My hands fell off and I’ve been busy learning to type with my toes My cat ate my laptop I was abducted by...
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