It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
In the last post I gave a hint of the inspiration to Mayann’s wardrobe, and today we’ll take a closer look at her dear friend Lou’s shoebox.
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Two tone men’s suede and leather Oxford shoes, 1925-36. Learn more at 24hourmuseum.org.uk
Wingtips, spectators, two-tones… A dear child has many names, and these babies have had a special spot [...]
From an amazing collection of vintage fashion from the 1920’s at vintagetextile.com. The other decades are also worth a look.
Giacomo Leopardi
La Ginestra
o il fiore del deserto
‘And men loved darkness rather than the light’
John, III:19
… Sweet-smelling broom,
Patient in the wastelands. As indeed I saw you
Where your stems added beauty to the solitude
Of the dead tracts that brood
Round Rome: that she was queen of cities once,
Set in an empire gone,
Your stalks with their grave silent presence [...]
Oh! Do not fool with ze Puppay, oh!
You must take me to suppay,
If there’s not ze Taxi I will go in ze Couppay,
There you must buy me ze Champagne, oh!
A “French” novelty foxtrot from the year 1920. 86 years before Paris Hilton, fashionably expensive city girls couldn’t be imagined without their tiny dogs.
Something is going on. This blog’s title isn’t “Fennoskandia” anymore. I couldn’t resist the siren song of my new project, the retro sci-fi (?) mystery comic GoldenBird, and decided to devote this whole blog to it.
Chapter 1 of GoldenBird can be read at my other blog YellowPeril or ordered from me as a slightly different [...]