Okay vintage gals, I would love to know what your thoughts are on this new music video from Beyonce? I just discovered it and don't really know if I like it or not. Do you think Beyonce is just following the vintage trend at the moment or doing something else? I normally don't watch music videos, but I was really intrigued by this one. All comments welcome! :)
I've been wanting to try out faux bangs for a while now. I've tried to achieve the look before by just curling and pinning my bangs under. While this worked, it didn't really hold well after a few hours, so I wanted something more stable. I've always admired Twila Jean's faux bangs and asked her if she used a rat. I had just bought one from Sally's, but it was frightfully large and seemed best suited for a roll in the back of your hair. Twila told me she made her own rat; as so she could make it the size and shape she wanted, not to mention a perfect color match.
After finding out exactly what I needed to do, I got busy and made my own rat so I could enjoy some variety in my daily hairstyles. (If anyone would like more information on this, send me an email) I'm a huge fan of Lisa Freemont Street on YouTube and especially took a liking for THIS hairstyle. So that is my basis for inspiration for this do. It is as easy as Ashley says it it. I just set my hair in HotSticks, brushed it a bit, rolled my bangs up and I was off. Definitely a quick and easy hair do for us vintage gals who want to look period accurate.
I hope you check out both Twila Jean's blog and Lisa Freemont Street channel on YouTube!! I am now off to plan out my outfit for tonight's festivities!
Emily
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Since this is New Years Day and we are embarking on a new decade, I think this old news reel is very fitting. I found it last semester while searching YouTube for old fashion news reels for a film project I was working on. A little history on the news reel can be found here.
Please do take a look, it's really interesting to see what older generations thought we would be wearing!! :)
I was surfing around on YouTube and came across this old clip of Linda Darnell on What's My Line and thought it was very cute and humorous. I just love Linda Darnell, she is one of my all time favorite actresses. So, for your Sunday evening viewing pleasure, I leave you with Linda Darnell. Hope you all had wonderful weekends!!!
Today is my birthday and I had planned on wearing my 40's robin egg blue suit but the weather here was so nice, so I decided to take this dress for one more spin before the snow comes. I love this dress. It is cut on the bias, making it drape beautifully. It has purple polka dots all over it, giving it a great contrast between that and the periwinkle blue. Black is always a "go to" color for me and I like the added contrast of the pastels and the stark black accents. I set my hair in sponge rollers last night and I really liked the out come of the setting I did -- one that I had never tried before. If anyone is interested, I can do a post on it. I did a modified take on one that LisaFreemontStreet did on You Tube. She has a really great channel with lots and lots of tips.
While surfing youtube the other day, I stumbled across this adorable old short film with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and just had to share it with you all. I really enjoy these little films that classical Hollywood stars made. They are extremely cute and show a lighter side to old Hollywood. I hope you all enjoy it and if you have any links to more clips like this, let me know!!
Yesterday in one of my film classes, I was reminded of one of my favorite short films of all time. I knew it could be found on YouTube so I wanted to share it with you all.
This short film, "Anna Belle Serpentine Dance" was done by Thomas Edison in 1895 and is one of the first known color films. Most people think that "Gone with the Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" are among the first color films, but color films date back to the birth of the cinema. This short film was colored by the hand coloring technique. This is where each frame is hand painted. This process took a very long time and was very expensive. During this time there were a few other methods of coloring films that were popular. Toning was a process done during the exposure process, tinting or dipping, was done by dipping a section of the film into a bath of dye, and stenciling was done by making a stencil of the sections to be colored and then coloring them. Sometime more than one of these techniques were used to color films. One of the major forerunners in the stenciling movement were Pathe brothers, who were French and employed mostly women. These women worked mostly on the stenciling process because they had small hands. This was the first opening for women in the film industry.
The short film showed above is based off of Loie Fuller, a dancer that was famous for her style of dance. I just love how her dress drapes and she looks so graceful while the fabric swirls. I also really love how she is colored. Yellow is my favorite color and it shows up a lot in this film.
One more note on early colored films; most films that are colored from this time period are of women, which I find really interesting. Many think that it is because color and women are normally associated together, which would make sense why women were employed to color the films as well as star in them.
Let me know what you think of this film. Do you love it or hate it?? I am really interested to know how others feel about it!!
