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medusasseveredhead:

All it says at the source: 1940s “Louise”

Which is unfortunate. I’d love to know more.

wow. wow.

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The production of propaganda textiles featuring slogans and imagery relating to the war allowed civilians to support the war effort in yet another way. Interestingly, these textiles were not produced by governments, but by independent manufacturers. In the United States and Britain, propaganda textiles featured familiar slogans such as “V for Victory” and “Keep it Under Your Hat,” a reminder that casual conversations could inadvertently reveal confidential information. Other designs featured brightly colored patterns of red, white and blue, the colors of the Allied flags. The FIDM Museum propaganda textile dress seen here features a pattern embedded with the slogan “There’ll Always be an England,” after a British patriotic song of 1939.

This collection of textiles was intentionally printed with reversed “mirror-writing,” which can be read properly only when reflected in a mirror… The mirror-writing also had an immediate effect on the wearer; every time she glanced in a mirror, she was confronted with a cheerful, fashionable reminder of her patriotic duty.

WOAH YOU GUYS. WOAH.

kronstadt21:

‘Gaston Mallet’s black cloth suit; check tie-silk waiscoat, jet-buttoned. with matching cuffs; both attached with press-studs. White shirt “front”. Add a black silk hat (this is faille from Honore Soeurs), jet earrings, short white gloves.’

Stunning. From Vogue, June 1949. By Lee Miller.

Vintage Scans

yehyehgrace:

John Rawlings for Vogue (01 JUN 1941)

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cinyma:

Blade Runner, 1982 (dir. Ridley Scott)

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undr:

Folke D Sörvik

Reading cyclists, ca 1946

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Sidewalk Clock, New York, photographed byIda Wyman (1947)

Wyman was one of the nearly 100 female photographers of the Photo League, the pioneering documentary photo movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Here Wyman captures the movement and rhythm of the city. This unique sidewalk clock, embedded by Barthman Jewelers on the corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane in 1898, is a hidden gem of New York’s former jewelry district. In 1946, it was estimated that 51,000 people unwittingly stepped on the clock between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. each day. The clock, which was given a new face shortly after this picture was taken, still works today.

billie holiday photographed by carl van vechten, 1949

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!!! what a GLORIOUS dress! zebra print!