Wow, what a marvelous find! Great pictures. I have four scrapbooks of stage actors and actresses someone compoled from about 1890-1905. I've been wanting to scan them, they are great resources for dress as actually worn. Lots of ladies dresses in evening dress, dressed to the nines, great to see what accessories and jewelry would have been worn.
Katy On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Wendi Dunlap <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/13/09 1:29 PM, Elena House wrote: >> >> To get the imagery down, you might have fun at: >> http://www.silentladies.com/Ladies.html >> It's not terribly easy to find people there by date, but there were >> plenty of stars (such as Mary Pickford, Lillian& Dorothy Gish, >> Blanche Sweet, Florence Lawrence, Mabel Normand, Alice Joyce, Clara >> Kimball Young, Pearl White, and more) who are on here that were >> already famous 1914-18. By the way, Lucile (Lady Duff Gordon) was a >> very popular film costume designer at the time. > > Delurking... > > You might also enjoy the photo collection I've posted at > http://www.flickr.com/photos/litlnemo/sets/72157615210203836/ . > > It's all from a scrapbook I found at Goodwill a couple of months ago. The > scrapbook appears to have been compiled around 1916, and it's full of photos > of movie stars of the time (and also a few dancers and stage actors). There > are some amazing clothes in there. I put some of the images online, but > there are *hundreds* of them in the scrapbook. The scrapbook-keeper > collected an outrageous amount of clippings, glued some into the book, and > then just stuffed the rest in. It's quite amazing. (I think it's probably > the best thing I've ever found at Goodwill -- and it was only $12.99! Now I > just have to figure out the best way to preserve it.) > > There are some great WWI-era details in the photos. I seriously want to make > clothing from that period now. > > W > > -- > *-----------------------+---------------------------------------+------* > \ Wendi Dunlap-Simpson | litlnemo at slumberland.seattle.wa.us | dear/ > / Seattle, Wash., USA | http://www.slumberland.seattle.wa.us | 23 \ > *--"Somehow everything will be a little different than you thought"----* > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian [email protected] www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
