the metal zipper- bringing fashion past and present together — polka dots
Gone Dotty
1920s dress 1930s dress 1940s dress 1950s dress 1960s dress 1970s dress fashion polka dots spots vintage vintage clothing vintage fashion yves st laurent
Polka dot prints in fashion are timeless! Seen now as fun and whimsical, they weren't always seen that way. In Medieval Europe, they were often seen as representing illness or disease. Because the ability to create evenly spaced dots did not exist at the time, dots on fabric would be scattered in a random pattern- reminding people of pox or rashes. In Shakespeare's "Othello", Desdemona's spotted handkerchief leads to tragedy in the play. In non-Western cultures polka dots symbolized male virility or magic. More densely packed, small dots were indicative of stronger magic. Before dots were called polka dots, dotted...
vogue into spring
1930s 1930s vogue 1938 catalina coco chanel jantzen petty pin-up pinup polka dots vintage vintage magazine vintage swimsuit vintage vogue magazine vogue vogue magazine
I have a killer collection of vintage Vogue magazines, and I don't mean 1960s….I'm talking 1930s and 40s. I love them so! Just wanted to share some highlights, these from May of 1938. Coco Chanel Catalina swimwear…names for prints! Petty pin-up work for Jantzen