Sometimes the most beautiful backdrop is just around the corner of your house waiting to be found. Sometimes it is next to the busiest park and somehow looks like the most peaceful quite corner. Photographs can do two very different things – capture a place and a moment as it was, or as the photographer wants you to believe. Instagram has fooled us again and again with these “perfect photos” – a solitude moment in Fontana de Trevi, quiet picnic in front of the Eiffel Tower, or in this case a peaceful corner in East London. Angles, lighting, and editing can do wonders – just a good reminder to not believe everything on the internet haha!
Just like the condiment, sometimes mustard is the key to spice up your life. I recently acquired this classic pinafore and for its first outing I decided that mustard will give it an extra kick. It’s vintage, it’s comfortable, and I even think it looks professional enough for work. While I am on the home stretch of my current job I might have to go for interviews, run a workshop, or meet other creatives soon. Looking professional is very important for me and is always a part of the “fake it til you make it” philosophy I live by. I swear I’m not making excuses for buying this pinafore.. hehe.
African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s
Now showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through October 8th is a collection of over 150 formal portraits taken in studios during the war years and after. They range from ones featuring the young man going off to war in his uniform to families having their photos done. Unlike fashion magazines and sewing magazines which give us beautiful fantasies at times, these are people in their own clothes wearing their Sunday best or how they would best like to be remembered. These were more formal times than today for clothing, and it shows in the pictures as you see the women at top in their dresses, hats, gloves and bags.
Today on our blog Katie’s taking a look at coloured stockings! You may think that back in the Forties and Fifties they were a drab and colourless bunch, but the truth is that colourful stocking designs did exist! Here, Katie holds a green silk Fully Fashioned vintage pair, next to legs displaying our modern contrast seam versions!
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