1970s Indian Silk Dress

byCaramel Vintage 

American Crescent Cycles. 1899. Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell.

42 ¾ x 62 7/8 in./108.6 x 159.8 cm

Ramsdell studied at the Art Students League of New York, then left for Paris, where his work was shown at the Paris Salon between 1891 and 1898. This was the sweet spot for the French advertising poster, of course, and especially the work of Eugene Grasset, whose style Ramsdell appropriates in spectacular style.

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Western Australia. 1936. Percy Trompf.

24 7/8 x 39 ¾ in./63.3 x 101 cm

In 1936, Shirley Temple was the best-paid actress in Hollywood, so perhaps that was the flash of inspiration that made Percy Trompf turn the Tinseltown flashbulbs on this child of the Outback. Trompf became the most famous poster artist for Australian tourism, delivering bright and cheerful images like these during the depths of the Depression, so that celebratory bouquet the girl is holding ought, rightly, to belong to him – and you too.

Phyllis De Trano for Georgette Vintage Dress   https://www.etsy.com/listing/612364675/50s-ivory-lace-dress-summer-party

https://www.etsy.com/listing/598534932/vintage-30s-sheer-dress-wheat-green   Vintage 30s Sheer Dress Wheat Green Yellow Pale

50s Black Party Dress Hattie Carnegie Full Skirt Vintage Holiday Cocktail S https://www.etsy.com/listing/558375326/50s-black-party-dress-hattie-carnegie

50s Cocktail Dress Black Lace Vintage 1950s XL L   https://www.etsy.com/listing/553759518/50s-cocktail-dress-black-lace-vintage

50s Black Velvet Dress Vintage Party Cocktail Alco Junior S M   https://www.etsy.com/listing/567547785/50s-black-velvet-dress-vintage-party

60s Black Silver Party Dress L https://www.etsy.com/listing/562939537/60s-black-silver-dress-party-vintage

Grayson Robinson 1951

Jonathan Logan 1956

Natlynn Junior Originals 1956

Betty Barclay 1954

I have been OBSESSED with vintage fashion for as long as I can remember. Its only been since august when I started to dress in vintage clothing and retro style almost everyday. Its so much fun! 

“It’s better to be looked over than overlooked” - Mae West

Hat£4.50 Greens home and antiques / Gloves £2 Car boot sale / Mickey Mouse brooch £1 Primark / Belt 99p charity shop / Nylon scarf £2 Car boot sale / Jumper £2 charity shop / Vintage woven handbag £5 car boot sale / Skirt £2.50 charity shop  

My sister says that I am so much happier when I’m dressed up everyday. She says I smile more, I laugh more and get more done. Being creative and dressing how you want is obviously a good thing for me. 

Photos taken by my sister. 

Necklace: Topshop (£7) 

Dress: Charity shop find (about £3) 

Belt: Primark (£2) 

Shoes: Rocketdog (£15 factory shop) 

Glasses: Wish (£2) 

Kronosaurus

Mounted specimen on display at Harvard Museum of Natural History

Reconstruction by Jaime Chirinos

When: Cretaceous (~ 125 - 99 million years ago)

Where: Australia

What:Kronosaurus is an australian plesiosaur. Yes, it is a plesiosaur even though it lacks the long neck that many people associated with the group. Plesiosauria is roughly divided into two groups;  Plesiosauroidea - the long necked forms and Pliosauroidea - the short necked forms. Kronosaurus is an example of the latter clade, and shows many of the defining features of this group - such as an enormous head with massive jaws, a short neck, and a relatively short tail- the opposite in many ways of their cousins the plesiosauroids. This australian sea monster was one of the largest of its clade, with estimates of up to 33 feet long (~10 meters). Its teeth reach almost 5 inches (~12 cm ) long in crown length - the part above the gumline. The total tooth would have been over double in size. The large size of its teeth, combined with distinct shape and the lack of clear cutting surfaces also  for their easy identification if they are found as isolated material. 

The Kronosaurusspecimen seen above was found in on private property in central Queensland, Australia in the 1920s. A crew from Harvard was shown where the specimen was weathering out, and set about excavating the fossil. After years of work, the specimen was boxed up into over 80 crates, weighing in at over 6 tons and shipped to the states, where it was mounted at the Harvard museum. Decades later the original discoverer of the material finally got the see the results of the preparation and mounting of what he termed ‘his dinosaur’ at the age of 93. In life Kronosaurus was a top predator; there are fossils of Elasmosauridae plesiosaurs that show bite wounds that could have come from Kronosaurus! No fish for this animal, it was after much bigger prey, leading to amazing plesiosaur vs plesiosaur encounters. Or so I like to imagine!

I just love this!  It says “Lawrence in his girl’s clothes.”  

And here I thought I was the only one.  \(♥u♥)/

Ukulele, anyone?