Saturday, June 19, 2021

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.

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Vintage Icon clothing on display

 


Oleg Cassini 1962 worn by Jacqueline Kennedy.


Oleg Cassini 1962


Howard Greer Beverly Hills


House of Givenchy 1952


Givenchy 1955


Dior Paris 1958


Dior


Norell Embroidered White Party Dress, C. 1954,


Norman Hartnell 1950s


 Balenciaga, Cocktail dress, 1957


Giovanni Bedin for House of Worth

Style - You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
















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