Relaxing in Daks
This Simpson of Piccadilly brochure c1937 is one of my favourite things. The illustrations, the clothes, the layout, the format....
Tag: fashion
-
-
A is to B
Next week I am doing some quite intensive museum things. Going to a conference about them. My brain might well...
-
Ride on
I really see nothing wrong with this image. At all. It’s from Vogue May 1945. I have come over a...
-
The new man
The New Man. As he was drawn by Douglas in Spring 1933. This magazine was produced by The Rego Clothiers...
-
Comme pom
I don’t lust after much in fashion. Even though I write about much in fashion. I’m not a fashionable shape,...
-
Masculine whim
The Austin Reed man was a bit spoilt with nice graphics and advertising in the mid-twentieth century. Austin Reed is...
-
Size matters
I like shop window display. I like fashion. I like toys. I like it when all 3 of these things...
-
CC 41
An era that interests me, ephemerally-speaking, is the Utility scheme of the Second World War. It ran from 1941 to...
-
RSVP
The fashion world is often accused of being ephemeral. How great it is, then, when that means nice bits of...
-
Pleats please
Shelf Appeal is on an exhibition run this week. That’ll be because of Paris, then. The frock exhibitions in Paris...
-
Cordially invited
It’s London fashion week. Again. So here is a bit of ephemera from my pile of donated fashion tat. From...
-
A Queen of a magazine
At the risk of repeating myself (I’m pretty sure I blogged Autumn last year) the weather is amazing at the...