A flexible flapper in 1925. Unknown photographer. General Photographic Agency / Getty Images / src: The Guardian
Tag: headgear
Sasha (Alexander Stewart)
:: Jessie Matthews as Paula Bond in ‘Hold My Hand’. December 1931.
Bromide print. / src: National Portrait Gallery
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Khadija Saye :: Dwelling: in this space we breathe is a series of wet plate collodion tintypes that explores the migration of traditional Gambian spiritual practices and the deep rooted urge to find solace within a higher power. This series of tintypes were produced with artist, Almudena Romero.
Currently exhibited at the Diaspora Pavilion during the 57th Venice Biennale: May – November 2017
Actress and Ziegfeld girl Helen Lee Worthing, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Photograph by Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc., New York, 19 December 1929.
/ src: trialsanderrors
Alfred Cheney Johnston
:: Dolores as The White Peacock in Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic, 1919 / src : NYPL and trialsanderrors
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Depending on source this is a Showgirl costume for an early Paramount
Picture- some say the costume was most likely designed by Travis Banton
or Howard Greer
/ Other sources described this as Ziegfeld Follies Showgirl with Pearls
necklace and feathers’ headgear. Whatever the case her headdress is
awesome. ca. 1920′s
Depending on source this is a Showgirl costume for an early Paramount Picture- some say the costume was most likely designed by Travis Banton or Howard Greer
/ Other sources described this as Ziegfeld Follies Showgirl with pearls
necklace and feathers’ headgear. Whatever the case her headdress is awesome (as she is). ca. 1920′s
Janette (Jeannette) Rankin (first woman member of Congress), 1910′s-1920’s [National Photo Company via Library of Congress]
un regard oblique 