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The 3 Most Iconic Jewellery Styles of the Past Century

The 3 Most Iconic Jewellery Styles of the Past Century

Take a look around you the next time you walk down a busy street, and chances are the vast majority of people you see will be wearing some type of jewellery. It’s the most common accessory in the world, and men and women alike wear it on a daily basis. Today’s jewellery, while sharing plenty of(…)

Lauren Bacall Looking Oh So Sophisticated

Lauren Bacall Looking Oh So Sophisticated

Lauren Bacall in a publicity photo from the 1950s I would guess. Isn’t she stunning? I’m not sure when this was taken or for which movie, but I’m guessing she’s in her early 20s in this picture. When I compare her with myself in my early 20s she’s astonishingly sophisticated *sigh*

A 1940s Headscarf and My Grandma’s Pearls

A 1940s Headscarf and My Grandma’s Pearls

I know there’s nothing authentic about this outfit, my silk scarf is actually from the 1960s, the headscarf style is inspired by 1940s land-girls,  my clothes are modern and my Grandma’s pearls are probably from the 1950s, but it was a nice outfit to wear, and surprisingly liberating to wear a headscarf! It’s nice not(…)

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor

The incredibly beautiful and regal-looking Zsa Zsa Gabor photographed by her studio in 1955. Stunning eh? Having said that I’ve never seen a single movie with Zsa Zsa Gabor in it, have you?

Tallulah Bankhead

Tallulah Bankhead

Actress and movie star Tallulah Bankhead photographed in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

Ziegfeld Follies girl Caja Eric

Ziegfeld Follies girl Caja Eric

Portrait of Ziegfeld Follies girl Caja Eric wearing a low cut dress with long pearl drop necklace, 1920s Source and copyright: This work is in the public domain in that it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 and without a copyright notice