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Okimono [19th Century] unknown artist Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum

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Purple Velvet Evening Dress

c. 1937

Augusta Auctions

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✦ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒, 𝐋𝐀𝐒 𝐕𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐒 — 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟔 ✦

Rare footage from the Sands Hotel’s 4th Anniversary celebration, December 1956.

A night of champagne, eating cake, satin, flashbulbs, and old Hollywood glamour — with Lucille Ball, Mitzi Gaynor, Jerry Lewis, Danny Thomas, Marlene Dietrich, Esther Williams, and Sands executive Jack Entratter among the evening’s celebrated guests.

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Trained Lamé Evening Gown

early 1930s

Augusta Auctions

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Lazer Love

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Clara Bow

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Bela Lugosi's commissioned painting of Clara Bow by Geza Kende, 1929.

A brief affair between Clara and Bela Lugosi began after she saw the play "Dracula" in 1929. Clara wore only a bathing suit under a fur coat to the theater, and Lugosi later joked of her infamous "love bites" all along his back. The painting remained in his home until his death in 1956.

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Brunette Doris Day in “It’s a Great Feeling” - 1949

Costumes by Milo Anderson

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The Light Within by Karl J. Kuerner, 1996

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Sophia Loren by Milton H. Greene, 1963.

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A Love Story by Nell Brinkley, 1923

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Dress

c. 1905-1907

Dress of white muslin with multi-coloured floral embroidery.

Great Britain

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Dress

c. 1969

Nancy Lee Kimmel (1948-1976) made herself this dress when she was the maid-of-honor for her friend, Linda Windel, who married Clinton Brown in August of 1969. Its style typifies the high-waisted Empire style of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The yellow and gold combination was a popular one at the time, appearing not only in fashion but in household decor as well. Kimmel began sewing as a teenager after taking home economics classes at Bethesda-Chevy Chase Senior High School. She later attended the University of Maryland where she majored in home economics with a focus in interior design, a field she pursued after graduation.

Maryland Center for History and Culture

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Ann-Margret

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Gloria Swanson in a Japanese magazine advertisement for Madame Sans-Gêne (1925)

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Beautiful Gene Tierney 🌹