Tuesday, July 26, 2011

50'S FLIRTATION






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




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