Saturday, June 19, 2021

Lucinda Hollingsworth

 Lucinda Hollingsworth aka "Cindy" Hollingsworth, was one of the great beauties of the modeling world. ... Lucinda is from Long Island, and starting in the mid fifties, she became one of the Ford Agency's top models; from 1955 until the late sixties, an unusually long career for a model of that period.


Lucinda Hollingsworth is wearing a blue hat by Adolfo of Emme, make-up from Elizabeth Arden and jewelry by David Webb.
Photo by Karen Radkai, 1957














Beautiful Embroidery



- Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.  Charlotte Gray












Friday, June 18, 2021

Vintage Shoes

 


1940's





1950's



1956







1950's



1960's


1960's




1960's

Icons in Fashion

 


Sophia Loren in 1950's Dior


Dovima in a dress by Larry Aldrich. Photography by Horst P. Horst


Mary Jane Russel in Harvey Berin 1953.


Olivia de Havilland in Dior 1955.


Grace Kelly in 1955's "To Catch a Thief". Designer Edith Head


Grace Kelly


Ava Gardner in 1954 "Barefoot Contessa". Costume designer Fontana.


Ginger Rogers 1930's Plaid Halter Dress


Actress/model Anita Colby with look-alike mannequins, photo by Nina Leen, 1954


Elizabeth Taylor


Simone in 1958 Balmain cocktail dress of black on white polka-dotted chiffon.




THE SERENITY PRAYER

GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY
TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE;
COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN;
AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME;
ENJOYING ONE MOMENT AT A TIME;
ACCEPTING HARDSHIPS AS THE PATHWAY TO PEACE;
TAKING, AS HE DID, THIS SINFUL WORLD
AS IT IS, NOT AS I WOULD HAVE IT;
TRUSTING THAT HE WILL MAKE ALL THINGS RIGHT
IF I SURRENDER TO HIS WILL;
THAT I MAY BE REASONABLY HAPPY IN THIS LIFE
AND SUPREMELY HAPPY WITH HIM
FOREVER IN THE NEXT.
AMEN.

--REINHOLD NIEBUHR