loss

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[20th-century-man]

Jayne Mansfield / centerfold from her appearance as Playboy’s Playmate of the Month, February 1955 / photo by Hal Adams.

[cosmicanger]

ye hao in ‘heat stroke’ photographed by wintam for gq china june

[oldflorida]

Florida Mid Winter ca. 1900 (Florida Memory State Archive)

[gone-by]

Barbara Bouchet in Amuck (1972)

[vintage-sweden]

Unknown woman, 1948, Sweden.

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Rita Hayworth performs the song You Excite Me in the Columbia Pictures/Victor Saville musical Tonight and Every Night, 1945. Miss Hayworth’s gowns in the film were designed by Jean Louis. 

[warmfuzzyphoto]

Kiss, 1957

[wehadfacesthen]

Gloria Grahame, publicity photo for Naked Alibi, 1954

[newyorkersunposed]

[newyorkersunposed]

By Alberto Reyes

[classicfilmsource]

Maybe you love me because I’m an imbecile. Design for Living (1933) dir. Ernst Lubitsch

[vintage-sweden]

Ice skater, 1941, Sweden.

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1810 Day dress (Italy)

cotton, muslin, gold and silver-plated metal embellishments

(Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti)

[chewbacca]

If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as though our hard work ain’t been in vain for nothing.

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)  |  dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

[artist-rossetti]

Study of a Girl, 1867, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Medium: chalk

[hayscodeviolation]

Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten in SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943)

[aridante]

I would have gone through life half-awake, if only you’d had the decency to leave me alone.

— Maurice (1987) dir. James Ivory

[undr]

Frank Horvat, “Paris, Gare Saint Lazare”, 1959