50'S FLIRTATION

Little Town Flirt

Vogue - July 1959

"A Plea for Flirtation" 

Redhead flirtation

Countess Bismarck

Sophisticated Flirtation

Photography: Cecil Beaton

Millie Perkins

Demure Flirtation 

International cover girl and star of "Diary of Anne Frank"

Sally Victor hat

Dramatic flirtation

Fashion cincher: a little diamond of a hat by Lilly Dache

photography Tom Palumbo

Hollywood Flirtation

Kim Novak in Ceil Chapman

photography Martin Munkacsi

Burlesque Flirtation

Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee in burlesque when she stripped by plucking off rose petals, 1933

Wilhelmina flirts with Puerto Rico in a William Klein street scene wearing Custom Craft separates.

Wilhelmina flirts with William Klein's camera in Sloat, alongside the Ballet de San Juan against the parched whiteness of the San Jose Church

Flirting with a Chevy Impala and two Afghan hounds wearing David Chrystal

Flirting with kitty in never-out-of-season black by Lee Claire

photography Richard Rutledge

Flirting with skirting in never-out-of-season black

Ben Barrack silk faille and Famous Barr French leather gloves

photography Richard Rutledge

Anne St.Marie

Mysterious Flirtation

Black silk Murray Nieman trench with May:Kobley & Stern sunglasses

photography Tom Palumbo

Anne St.Marie

flirting with paisley

chiffon paisley from Miss Bergdorf photographed by Tom Palumbo

Flirting on the rooftops of New York

Mollie Parnis, Talmack and Herbert Sondheim designs

photography William Klein

flirting on the streets of New York

black-dress substitutes

Hannah Troy

photography William Klein

flirting on the way downtown

H. Charles designs

photography William Klein

Mirrored flirtation

Couture Int'l.

William Klein

The 30 Million Record Boys

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 

photography David Attie

Jane Fonda
Major flirt
Vogue July 1959

Jane Fonda in a 1959 first of July look - the news of the honeyed temporary hair colour 'Riviera Rinse' by Helene Curtis. Lipstick-coloured gloves by Wear-Right. Photography Irving Penn

Countess Mona von Bismarck

1928 as Mrs. Harrison Williams,

Photography Edward Steichen

Mona von Bismarck, fashion icon,  "the best dressed woman in the world" - 1933, International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame-1958 also famous for 'marrying up'

Mona Strader Schlesinger Bush Williams von Bismarck-Schonhausen di Martini

1897 - 1983

Once a great beauty