Apologies for the lack of updating the past few days. I’m currently doing some dressing work again and trying to keep up with general day-to-day website stuffs. I also snatched a mere 48 hours in Brighton (bliss!) in a break between shows which, in turn, reminded me that I scanned this brilliant image the other day and hadn’t shared yet.
I’m determined to keep up a snappy[ish] blogging pace but, with work and a birthday holiday, I can’t promise quite such frequent updates. Besides, it’s summer. Is anyone even still reading me every day?
Month: June 2010
Very Britt Ekland. Very envious.
britt ekland, hair, interior design, loungewear, sanderson, seventies fashion
1973
I appear to have Ekland hair-envy again. Only this time, it’s coupled with Ekland interior decor-envy as well. Damn her.
Farewell Duffy
brian duffy, celia birtwell, ossie clark, quorum, telegraph magazine, thea porter
Both dresses by Sheridan Barnett for Quorum
Brian Duffy, 15 June 1933 – 31 May 2010
Thank you for making the world more beautiful. Photos by Duffy for The Daily Telegraph Magazine, September 1973.
Clothes by Jane Cattlin
Left: Thea Porter, Right: Missoni
Left: Ossie Clark, Right: Yves Saint Laurent
Left: Jean Muir, Right: Sheridan Barnett
More Veruschka Tonik
1970s, veruschka, Vintage Adverts
Vogue, March 1973
No, I haven’t distilled some Essence of Veruschka. It’s another in the series of adverts she did for Tonik by Dormeuil. One day I hope to complete the set.
Tales from the Nursery
Foale and Tuffin, Inspirational Images, jean varon, john bates, seventies fashion, Vogue
Clothes by Foale and TuffinNinny Nanny Prettycoat
In an oatmeal petticoat.
The fuller the sleeves,
The sweeter the roses.
Delicious nursery rhyme themed spread from Vogue, April 1970. Photographed by Elisabeth Novick. I have included the strange nursery rhymes they have mangled created. Even though I think they’re a load of tosh. Why so literal, anonymous Vogue writer? Why not just use the originals and leave something to the imagination?
The photos are pretty incredible though, which makes it all worthwhile….
Be a fine lady and wear a fine dress,
Fragile as Bo-Peep’s, cut like a caress.
Sleeves are the prettiest,
Bloomers the wittiest,
In light silk and voile, paisley or crepe.
Fragile as Bo-Peep’s, cut like a caress.
Sleeves are the prettiest,
Bloomers the wittiest,
In light silk and voile, paisley or crepe.
Clothes by PooleTake a tuck, take a tuck tailor’s man.
Sew me some voile fast as you can.
Frill it and smock it,
And colour it white.
Then add pretty bloomers not quite out of sight.
Clothes by John Bates for Jean VaronLittle Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Wearing brown paisley and blue.
The skirt length was midi,
The bodice was pretty,
The trousers were brown paisley too.
Clothes by Francis Vaughan
Mary Mary silk and suede
How does this garden grow?
With smocking green
And pinafore
And hollyhocks all in a row.
Clothes by Lady Fingers
Several yards of ice-cream crepe,
Several yards of stitching,
Smock it high and frill the cuffs.
The dress is quite enchanting.
Inspirational Images: Loretta Young
Inspirational Images, loretta young, silent films
Hazy, girly summer perfection.Poodle Parlour
bebe buell, groupies, hair, rod stewart, seventies fashion, stevie nicksA triumvirate of fluffy hair.
Stevie Nicks, Rod Stewart and Bebe Buell, 1977
Inspirational Images: Charlotte Rampling
charlotte rampling, hair, Inspirational Images, sixtiesCan it be…? That chain dress so beloved of Diana Rigg, and which I’m still desperate to identify? The dress colour and texture is different, but the chain effect looks very similar.
I love this shot of Charlotte Rampling; it’s a familiar pose. Me, sitting on the pouffe in front of my beloved art deco dressing table, wondering how on earth I’m going to do battle with my hair today…. Except I have genuine problems and clearly Ms Rampling does not.
by Philip TownsendThe Comely Miss Lumley
Inspirational Images, joanna lumley, Pattie Boyd, sixties
Joanna Lumley in her Swinging Sixties modelling days. An unashamedly posh bird who knew how best to work with masses of hair and ‘insufficient flying buttresses‘. I choose my style heroines verrrrrry carefully, you know…
She’s been in two of my favourite cult TV shows of all time (The New Avengers and Sapphire and Steel) and continues to be an elegant, engaging performer and a true lady to this day. I always admire those who broke somewhat pointless social taboos back in the Sixties, and Joanna chose to have her son ‘out of wedlock’ at a time when it would have ruined many a career.
She’s one of those people who just seems to float gracefully above the mêlée of the world below. Elegant, classy and sparky, never a snob or an airhead. She wasn’t drama school trained either, and I often wonder if this makes someone a warmer, more likeable actor (much like the best fashion designers are rarely those propelled from St. Martins each year).
One day I’ll probably do a proper post on The New Avengers and Sapphire and Steel but, until then, enjoy La Lumley, Sixties-style.
Liz Eggleston 
