Personally, I'm not all that nostalgic for the summers of my childhood and youth with their tanning oil (SPF 6, if any) and disco music blaring on the beach. But one can't escape the charms of decades past when looking at truly vintage ads and photos, imagining clean(er) beaches, glamorous clothes and seductive nights.
I'll be inside with blaring a/c, if you don't mind.
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| Photo by Nina Leen for Life Magazine, 1946 |
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| That's Tippi Hedren on the right, 1954 |
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| Photo by Jean Pagliuso for Vogue, 1977 |
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| Jerry Hall, 1977 |
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| Brigitte Bardot, 1953, Cannes |
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| 1958. The sort of image that might have sent Betty Draper to the psychiatrist |
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| Carmen Dell’ Orefice, 1959 |
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| Elizabeth Taylor |
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| The one and only Grace Coddington in Missoni. Photo by F C Gundlach, 1967 |
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| Shirley Temple and Guy Madison |
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| Harper’s Bazaar January 1957 - Photo by John Engstead |
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| 1946, Illustrated by Pete Hawley |
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| Joan Collins |
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| We all look like that when we emerge from the water. Mary Belewsky, 1941. |
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| Summer makeup, 1968. Don't ask me what's with the headgear. |
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| Beverly Johnson, 1980 |
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| Welcome aboard. Ladies Home Journal, 1960 |
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| Photo by Philippe Halsman, 1940’s |
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| Ready for a roadtrip |
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| There has to be a picnic basket in the backseat |
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| Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue in A Summer Place, 1959. I loved that movie. |
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| Photographed by Roger Prigent, Vogue, June 1954 |
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| Vogue July 1955 Norman Parkinson |
All images via: myvintagevogue.com, Top Models Of The World, and Stirred, Straight Up, With A Twist.
Loved this...Since I'm pretty old (58!), these really do bring back memories for me. My father was a professional photographer, and he took me to a program given by Philippe Halsman (three models with newspapers above). Mr. Halsman would have his famous subjects jump up in the air to loosen them up so his portraits would be more natural and capture more of their real personality. He showed the pictures of them actually jumping...funny & interesting. Thanks for a fun blog.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely everyone looked before Photoshop! I don't know but they seem more romantic than today's adds.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful collection of ads. Thank you for posting.
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