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    Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist

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    Image of saintestella saintestella
    11/20/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    you know what amazing petticoats make me think of? the Pollyanna movie with Rudi Huxtable. i've never seen the Hayley Mills version and i don't want to - i know with certainty that my Pollyanna is better. integration and crystal rainbow lamps and dangerous tree climbing = very yes. and the shopping scene with the gloves and the hatboxes and the twirling petticoats....it's making me so excited and nostalgic that i'm gonna have to go dig up the VHS tapes and watch it. excuse me.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/20/09

    @saintestella: I actually featured Polly on b.vikki vintage a few days ago. I LOVED that movie as a kid.

    [bvikkivintage.blogspot.com]
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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist

    They're crinolines, not petticoats. They wore them under those full party skirts and scotty dog skirts in the 60s to make them poof out.

    (eta: it crops the picture? Sorry. I didn't know it did that and I don't know how to edit the url)
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    Image of BetteD BetteD
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    Those images are absolutely breathtaking. Excuse me, I am now off to put a Sarah Vaughn album on the record player (yes I still have one of those!).
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    Image of ZemarSea Urchin ZemarSea Urchin
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    This makes me want to run home and pour over my mother's photo albums. My mother used to tell me stories while I, as a child, went through all the old albums. She'd tell me about the times and my family history and she would laugh and say "oh, honey, that was the way we dressed back then. We looked sharp." Thanks LaToya you put a smile on my face.
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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    Glorious. So very glorious.
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    Image of vamvaki_poulaki vamvaki_poulaki
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    I can't tell if #19 is a contemporary photo or vintage...
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    Image of Inzombia Inzombia
    11/19/09

    @vamvaki_poulaki: I wrote the post at Threadbared ([threadbared.blogspot.com]) about b. nikki and the woman in #19, Meggy Wang, an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan who writes the blog Fashion for Writers ([www.fashionforwriters.com]). This is a photo of Meggy from the last year or so.
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    Image of lovelyivy lovelyivy
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    I still want petticoats to come back in style. I LOVED that style as a kid.

    Does anyone remember the movie Polly? A remake of Pollyanna with Rudy and Claire Huxtable starring? Most of her dresses had crinoline/ petticoat skirts and I was in LOVE with it. I couldn't wait to grow up and be allowed to dress that way.

    Last: I like Sarah Vaughn, but I LOVE Dinah. LOVE.
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    ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ promoted this comment Edited by lovelyivy at 11/19/09 3:15 PM lovelyivy was starred lovelyivy was unstarred
    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/19/09

    @lovelyivy: I actually featured Polly on b.vikki vintage a few days ago. I LOVED that movie as a kid.

    [bvikkivintage.blogspot.com]
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    Image of lovelyivy lovelyivy
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: Thank you so much for that link! I forgot how much I loved the music in that movie. As I said on your blog, I wore that tape out! Disney should release it on DVD- I would buy it in a heartbeat.

    #tips
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    Image of the glamwich the glamwich
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    i've been looking for stuff like this for years! thank goodness for the internets.

    it kind of bridges the gap for someone [like me] who is crazy into vintage fashion and aesthetics, but, is only even bombarded with images of people of the caucasian persuasion.
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    Image of dandelionbrowne dandelionbrowne
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    See, this is why I feel like Mad Men is being thoroughly lazy. It's so easy to dismiss the history of people of color in this country. There's so much that isn't included because the people compiling the information/archives either don't have a vested interest in seeing adequate representation or don't know how and where to look.

    So much falls to the wayside and what remains is a telling of our sorrows and strife instead of the full picture.

    The family album that sits in my mother's house dates back to the 1800's and in it, I see the beauty perseverance and strength of my ancestors.

    Most importantly, I see that we existed in ways contrary to the public record.

    Kudos to AntiSocialSocialite for putting this together.
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    Image of Israfel_angel Israfel_angel
    11/19/09

    @dandelionbrowne: Yes, I would agree with Mad Men being lazy in this regard. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a Mad Men spinoff where Don & Betty and the rest are the supporting players and Carla and the rest of the "help" are the main players.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/19/09

    @dandelionbrowne: Thanks! And you are COMPLETELY correct.
    I love Love LOVE Mad Men (dedicated a post to Sheila), but boy are they selective about what history they choose to include!

    And about that album you have. If you're comfortable with it, I'd love to feature some of your photos on my blog.
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    Image of dandelionbrowne dandelionbrowne
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥:
    I'm totally comfortable, but I've been trying to convince my mom to let me scan photos and make a digital archive for years now. I'm hoping I don't have to wait until I inherit it.
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    11/19/09

    @Israfel_angel:
    Right? I hate it when people just dismiss it with the "well, it was reflective of the times" argument.

    The sixties had a few people in high society outed for passing for white if I'm not mistaken. How hard would it be to add a character like that to the agency? How interesting would that be?

    I've said this before, but there were entertainers and people definetely intersected up North in ways that didn't happen down South. Sure, there were lines drawn ,but intersections happened. I think it's revisionist for them to infer otherwise.
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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    11/19/09

    @dandelionbrowne: They seemed like they were going to do something with the Civil Rights movement and the bearded one and his black gf, but nothing happened. I was disappointed.
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    Image of randomnessish randomnessish
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    @picture 17: YaYa, is that you??
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    OH MY GOD!
    THIS IS MY BLOG!
    *falls to floor dead*
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    Image of Cerridwen Cerridwen
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: I guess you don't have to worry about promoting your blog when the editors do a full-on feature on it! :)

    Nice work, by the way! This is a really interesting collection.
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    Image of Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd) Benevolent_Dictatrix (patently absurd)
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: Congratulations! You've put together an amazing collection.
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    Image of Inzombia Inzombia
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: Oh hey, this is Mimi, who wrote about your blog on Threadbared (which is also linked from the last slide)! Also, I want to note that the 19th image is Meggy Wang from Fashion for Writers: [www.fashionforwriters.com.]
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    Image of LatoyaPeterson LatoyaPeterson
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: Great blog! I found it through threadbared.
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    Image of jigglyball jigglyball
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: I just KNEW this would belong to a Jezzie. Amazing work - the collection took my breath away.
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    Image of scullymurphy scullymurphy
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: AWESOME. Gorgeous pictures and on-point commentary. Nice work!
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    11/19/09

    @♥AntiSocialSocialite♥: awesome blog! And also, don't die! Or at least try and come back as a zombie.
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    Image of History Major History Major
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    Photo # 3 is so mesmerizing. I long for the days when people just dressed up to dress up with no particular purpose in mind. Sigh.
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    Image of hfree hfree
    11/19/09

    @History Major: It's a really interesting picture, both visually and in terms of the historical impact. I'm really curious about the story behind it.
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    Great pictures, but one complaint. No guys. You ever seen a picture of Sam Cooke back in the day?

    Why no love for black men with style?
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    Image of AfroGuapo AfroGuapo
    11/19/09


    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: Posting a vintage fashion pic of my dad's cousin, Harlean Harris, who incidentally dated Sam Cooke.
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    AndPreciousLittleofThat promoted this comment AfroGuapo was starred AfroGuapo was unstarred
    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    11/19/09

    @AfroGuapo: That is seriously the COOLEST thing I've seen in a long time. She's beautiful. Thank you for sharing!

    And not to be a spoiler, but from the biography of Sam I'm currently reading, he dated most of the female populations of Harlem, the south side of Chicago, and LA. ;) Thanks!

    #tips
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    Image of AfroGuapo AfroGuapo
    11/19/09

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: You are absolutely correct. He was quite the Ladies Man Don Juan. This caption is illustrative. [farm4.static.flickr.com]
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    11/19/09

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: There are lots of men featured on the blog.

    [bvikkivintage.blogspot.com]

    Check it out!
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    11/25/09

    @AfroGuapo: Holy smokes, I just found your dad's cousin in the book I'm reading!

    AND she was apparently the reason why Jackie Wilson got shot!!

    According to pg. 355 in "Dream Boogie," a bio of Sam I'm reading, Jackie Wilson was shot on the day after Valentine's Day 1951 by a "love-crazed fan" as the papers called her. Apparently he was escorting Ms. Harris, a teenage model "with the amazing hair style" into his apartment, when the other woman came up and tried to shoot HER. She missed and hit Jackie instead.

    Damn. Your dad's cousin was a true badass!!

    #tips
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    Image of nyc-caribbean-ragazza nyc-caribbean-ragazza
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    I should call my next script, "Negro Romance."

    Love it.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    11/19/09

    @nyc-caribbean-ragazza: I'm waiting for Eric Jerome Dickey to publish a novel with the same title.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/19/09

    In reply to Now Playing: Vintage American Fashion With A Sepia Twist
    Awesome! Y'all finally featured this blog. It took me so much by surprise when I first found it. I'm so used to seeing white girls in these types of ads that these pictures took my breath away.

    P.S. The blogess is a regular commenter here.
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    Image of LuvEwan LuvEwan
    11/19/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: It's a beautiful blog. I just discovered it a couple days ago.
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