Dame in Distress
A blog about vintage fashion and music (circa 1930-1950), and striving to live with class and style as a poor college student.
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Photo reblogged from Street Views
Untitled (a man participating in the Tweed Run 2011)
Editors note: Apparently the man is Ewan McGregor. No word on the name of his plushie.
I’m in love.
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Photo reblogged from ShinyShinyPrettyPretty
This doesn’t really count as vintage, does it? Oh, well.
(Source: lindseylaroo)
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Photo reblogged from Fuck Yeah, History Major Heraldic Beast
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Photo reblogged from Wartime Fashion
I went to Nordstrom Rack the other day and found myself looking at a pair of beautiful white-black leather shoes that you would see lads wearing back in the late 20’s. They were around 60 dollars.
To think there was ever a time where there were shoes available at $3.09 is amazing.
(Source: wartimefashion)
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We Saw The Sea, from the 1936 feature Follow The Fleet. Fred Astaire. This song always makes me laugh, particularly this bit:
“We joined the Navy to see the girls
and what did we see? We saw the sea
Instead of a girl or two in the taxi we were compelled to look at the Black Sea
Seeing the Black Sea isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.”
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Photo reblogged from ishkabibble
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Lads, I better never see this tie around your necks unless you are purposefully intending to look like a forty-five year-old man trapped in an office cubicle and desperately trying to show that some glimmer of youth and humor remains in his sad, weary body.
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Photo reblogged from Dandy and Dapper
Image shot by Emilie Bailey
via Style Salvage
I want this set so badly. Lace is my lover.
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Photo reblogged from Rolling Racks
The knickerbockers the first two lads are wearing were popular for both men and women up into around 1933, when they started being slowly fazed out of popularity; women turned to the appeal of more feminine clothing and dresses, and I cry sad, bitter tears over that in the seat of my soul, since in my little world of fashion, knickerbockers are a pinnacle of style.
Gents, I’ll excuse you for not wearing them… for now. If I meet a man who would willing wear what Man #1 and Man #2 are wearing, I’d kiss him.
(Source: alliemarque)
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Photo reblogged from QUEEN OF PRIDE ROCK
A screen shot from Trouble in Paradise (1932).
Lily Vautier: “Well, I’ll leave you alone with that lady. But if you behave like a gentleman, I’ll break your neck.”
Ah, the sweet, timid dames of the early 1930’s.
This movie is a personal favorite of mine after I saw it just, gosh, just a couple of weeks ago? I feel in love with it almost immediately. In any case, I nearly wept when I saw it wasn’t recorded on the DVR. Who knows when the heck it’ll turn up again for my recording joy?
(Source: formerlyhansflorianzimmer)
