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Monday, September 29, 2014

THE WAY WE WORE ...

Balenciaga - Winter 1963
Photography: Karen Radkai
Vogue October 1963

... eyes on the sixties at devodotcom

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

POST WAR FASHION

Dinner cap made for Dior by John Frederics

A twisted diamond cord on a black ostrich helmet ... on the glove, a twining diamond and emerald lily. Accessories - 25 ways to work a little magic.

Ben Gam

Orange-sashed beige shantung dress with an added second sash of mauve Italian silk by Brooke Cadwallader, fastened with a long-stalked daisy pin of gold, diamonds and sapphires

Adele Simpson

The Cape Back is Back

Maurice Retner

The Jib Jacket

Spring Walks In

Newton Elkin

Van Arden

Hattie Carnegie

Dark Dress - Caramel Complements.

Bag and bracelets by Cartier.

Christian Dior

As a fanciful version of the king of the beasts, Christian Dior puts his head in the lion's mouth.

The Ball of Kings and Queens: Comte Etienne de Beaumont held a great costume ball in his magnificent house in Paris. The occasion was the coming of age of his nephew, Comte Henri de Beaumont. The guests came dressed as kings and queens.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Disguised as the queen bee, Mme. Elsa Schiaparelli swarms with Baron Alexis Rede, as Alexander III of Russia.

Jacques Fath

Designer Jacques Fath is Charles IX, of the St. Bartholomew massacre, accompanied by Mme. Fath as his queen, Elizabeth of Austria.

The Ball of Kings and Queens

Photographs by Jean Moral

A matter

polish

Harper's Bazaar March 1949

Photography:

Lillian Bassman

Louise Dahl-Wolfe

Karen Radkai

Jean Moral

... eyes on the forties at devodotcom

Friday, February 15, 2013

IN VOGUE 1954

Jean Patchett

David Crystal Dress

Sally Victor Hat

Photography: Erwin Blumenfeld

Mainbocher

Mrs. Leopold Stokowski

The Former and Present Gloria Vanderbilt

' The Butterfly' coiffure by Michel of Helena Rubinstein

Illustration: Rene Bouche

The Week-enders

Her in Kenneth Tischler

He in Haspel

Illustration: Rene Bouche

Mrs. Amory Carhart,Jr.

Philip Hulitar and Maximilian

Photography: John Rawlings

Salvador Dali's Royal Heart

A honeycomb of rubies, throbs within the solid nugget-gold pericardium of Dali's Royal Heart

Photography: Irving Penn

The St. Regis Roof

Filco Dress

Weiss Rhinestone Jewellery

Photography: Karen Radkai

Vogue May 15, 1954

Eye on The Fifties at devodotcom

Thursday, April 12, 2012

SPRING AWAKENING

Dress - Harvey Berin

Shoes - Palter DeLiso

Hat - Irene of New York

Peek-a-Boo First Flowering

Suit - Marquise

Shoes - Julianelli

Hat - Mr. John

Growing Golder

Jean Patchett
Seymour Fox

Hat-Lilly Dache

The Fashion For Color

Vogue February 1956

Photography: Karen Radkai

Thursday, January 19, 2012

THE LAST OF THE GIRL NEXT DOOR - 1960

FROM COZY-NATURAL TO SMOOTH-AS-A-SAPHIRE

Karen Radkai

PEARLS -NO LONGER JUST FOR "R" MONTHS

Imperial Pearl ropes - Bonwit Teller

Karen Radkai

BEAUTY BYPLAYS

Karen Radkai

Huge braided straw hat, ventilated and shady as a New Orleans patio - Christian Dior-New York. An ascot of black jet beads run through with a few strands of blue. The earring,a heap of tiny gilt ropes - Napier.