~*~ 30 Style-Alikes! Part 2: #16-30 ~*~
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Yeah! Hold on to that handful of pansies! XD or not...??!
The cover of Delineator fashion magazine, April 1934, and then the cover to the American
pop singer and actress Kim Fields' 1984 hit single "He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not." (Aw!)
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And now...
A careful arrangement of points about love, by ~The Fashioniste~!
A woman whom one loves seldom suffices for all our needs, and one misleads her with a woman he does not love.
Une femme qu'on aime suffit rarement à tous nos besoins, et on la trompe avec une femme qu'on n'aime pas.
-Marcel Proust, early 20C French novelist
Anyone who teases you loves you.
-Hebrew proverb
The one you love you punish.
Den man elsker tugter man.
-Danish proverb
We hurt the ones we love the most, it’s a subtle form of compliment.
-Siobhan Fahey, Irish singer of the group Shakespeare’s Sister
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together;
every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
-Honoré De Balzac, early 19C French writer
Either we are pulling together or we are pulling apart.
-American proverb
Tell me who you love, and I'll tell you who you are.
-Creole proverb
Or rather:
Tell me who you love, and I’ll tell you who you hate.
Dis-moi qui tu aimes, je te dirai qui tu hais.
-Victor Hugo,
late 19C French writer
Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
-Nicolas Chamfort, late 18C French writer
Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.
-Oscar Wilde, late 19C Irish playwright
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White lace...red ribbons...wildflowers...ah yes, an ideal, illydic, romantic, bucolic vision...
Brazilian model Isabeli Fontana at Dolce & Gabbana, Spring 2006 -- and it was the closing dress of the show!
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~ I am still working on some more YouTube freeze-frames!... ~
In the meantime, here's the song -- if you listen to the whole thing, the build-up to the end is quite awesome >>
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3XjTMhU9miU
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~ A study in marcel waves ~~~~~
Defined as: a hairstyle characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron; they are also known as finger waves, shadow waves, and water waves, but are more commonly referred to as the namesake of the French hairdresser Marcel Grateau, who invented the styling process in 1872. It wasn't until 20 years later than Vogue magazine made its debut, and who would have thought that the hairstyle would appear on the cover of Vogue 135 years after the process was first done...! But just as impressive is the fact that it had remained a popular hairstyle for decades, and is now typically associated with the 1920s and early '30s.
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American actress Virginia Cherrill in the Charlie Chaplin silent film City Lights, 1931,
and then Russian model Natalia Vodianova on the cover of Vogue, from July 2007.
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Awesome scene, distilled into 6 frames...watch her face closely –
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OK, check this one out--
The one on the right is amused by the thickness of the brows on the left;
and the one on the left is in disbelief at the thinness of the brows on the right.
American model Lindsay Ellingson at Chanel Couture, Spring 2005, and
South African-born American actress Charlize Theron at a red carpet event, Fall 2005.
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That is UP............SWEPT.
The July 1913 issue of McClure's, a popular turn-of-the-20th-century literary and political magazine,
and then a closeup of Belarussian model Olga Sherer at Alexander McQueen, Spring 2007.
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The general idea is there, wouldn't you say?
English pop star Boy George from the Thai magazine Sharpics, 1984, and Canadian model Daria Werbowy in an outfit by Dutch designer Dries van Noten, on the cover of British Vogue, January 2005.
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Do you have a trench coat innnnnnnnn zzzzzzzzebra?
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Or perhaps a sweater?
From the magazine that encourages you to design t-shirts and animal-themed sweaters, Vogue Knitting magazine, Fall/Winter 1983, and Canadian model Coco Rocha in Dior Ready-to-Wear, Spring 2008.
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I just liked this pairing...enough said.
Life magazine, October 18, 1937, and American film actress Uma Thurman,
from the cover of Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2008.
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Another. . . . . . . Life?
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Compare the hair and the blush and the chin and the neck...
(but not the lips or the shoulders!) And definitely note the provenance of the portraits:
Vogue Italia, September 1996, and Italian painter Amadeo Modigliani's "Young Girl" (detail, and darkened), 1918.
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18th-Century style, Rule #Whatever: Regardless of the décolletage, the shoulders must puff.
English film and stage actress Audrey Hepburn, c. 1960, and a tea-pouring model from Vogue, June 1950.
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This is a HUGE set of pictures -- Aside from the descriptions, I will let them speak for themselves. I do like to see these pictures not as mere photographs, but as freeze-frames from a piece of artistic cinematic. In this new age of online video, many people have taken to using the hellishly vulgar term "screen-grab." WTF izzat? Anyhow,
Scroll slowlay and Enjoy...
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20th Century American film actress Ava Gardner, by the great American photographer Arnold Newman,
known for his "environmental portraits" of artists, leaders, and celebrities - this being one such example:
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Canadian model Linda Evangelista, from Elle magazine, December 1992.
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Swiss model Patricia Schmid at Givenchy Ready-to-Wear, Spring 2006.
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Russian model Katja Shchekina at Givenchy Ready-to-Wear, Spring 2006.
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Two models from the cover of Vogue Knitting, Spring/Summer 1952.
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> > How cool is that ? > >
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Oh that is just so cool...
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And that blonde from the background? Here's one hairstyle that definitely "alike," and it is one that seems to be halfway between two other ones -
I believe it is known as "the Ponytail Compromise."
Canadian model Jessica Stam at Givenchy Ready-to-Wear, Spring 2006, and
American model Lauren Hutton on the November 1, 1966 cover of Vogue.
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My homage to the awesomeness that is...the tight-fitting cable-stich cardigan.
(Once again, scroll slowly!)
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Russian model Valentina Zelyaeva at Moschino, Fall 2006, & a model from Vogue Patterns, Spring-Summer 1953.
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First: Upon arriving in Las Vegas. Then... After 2 years in Vegas. Sorry– make that 2 DAYS in Vegas...
The only real difference I see here is that she slightly extended her eyebrows. (That's really it, no?)
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1960s English model Twiggy, c. 1967, and Polish model Anja Rubik at Christian Dior Ready-to-Wear, Fall 2008.
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~ Getting a bit literary on these next two... ~
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The 16th-century French essayist Montaigne once said of marriage that,
It happens, as with cages; the birds outside despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.
-Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Book III, Chapter 5, "Upon Some Verses of Virgil"
Il en advient ce qui se voit aux cages: les oyseaux qui en sont hors, desesperent d'y entrer;
et d'un pareil soing en sortir, ceux qui sont au dedans.
-Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Livre III, Chapitre 05, "Sur des Vers de Virgile" (1592) (16th-century French)
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Paul Varjak: "You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself..." (Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961 - if you want the context, you just gotta see the movie!)
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That right there is LOVE! :^DDD
From Vogue magazine, December 1978.
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Slightly revised from the 19th-century novel, The Scarlet Letter, by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850):
On the ass of her jeans, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the very laws of fashion.
The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. But the point that drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer,—so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with her, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time,—was that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her ass. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.
- Chapter 2
The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. (And finally, after having taken it off, presumably along with the garment onto which it was sewn —) The stigma gone, she heaved a long, deep sigh, in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit. O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom !
- Chapter 18 |
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Now THAT....yeah. You know......what THAT'S all about.
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...or DO YOU? Ah HA, now it is absolutely imperative that I do what I can to keep my reputation as the champion of high culture on the Internet; and so, to counterbalance this update (so ass to make it acceptable for ALL visitors), here is the original rendering of those above excerpts from--ahem--the 19th-century novel, The Scarlet Letter, by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). ~ Enjoy :
On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A. It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore; and which was of a splendor in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.
The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance, on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam, and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was lady-like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more ladylike, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Her attire, which, indeed, she had wrought for the occasion in prison, and had modelled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity. But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer,—so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time,—was that SCARLET LETTER, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.
- Chapter 2
The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread....
Then, after having taken it off—
The stigma gone, Hester heaved a long, deep sigh, in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit. O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom! …
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Now you REALLY know what's that all about . . . or DO YOU?? :^o
Thank you - Much more soon!! ~The Fashioniste~
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