The Pretty Thing In The Abandoned House

I'm just an outmoded character, nothing more. You know, the beautiful stranger, slightly sad, slightly...mysterious...that haunts one place after another.

[sublimemarilynmonroe-blog]

Marilyn Monroe costume test There’s no Business Like Show Business 1954.

[frostedmagnolias]

Lady with a Bouquet of Daises

by Leopold Schmutzler (German-Czech, 1864-1941)

[greengableslover]

EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

[dreamyvixen]

1800s white silk evening bodice

[shushmuckle]

Patricia Morison

[ritahayworrth]

DORIS DOWLING and ALAN LADD in The Blue Dahlia (1946) dir. George Marshall

[rocknrollwitches]

[dirt-cake-doll]

[kayflapper]

A Family photo of a woman on a roof, c. 1928-1930.

[colorhollywood]

Ava Gardner relaxing in her dressing room during film Lone Star, 1952

[didanagy]

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT: MURDER ON THE LINKS (1997) dir. andrew grieve

[petaltexturedskies]

It seems suddenly that the years accelerate and move faster and faster which is sad. The ice cream cart, painted with white enamel, is now driving slowly down the street, ringing its musical bell to call the children out from the houses and tempt them to buy the bright cold ices. And I know that it is truly summer once more.

Sylvia Plath, in a diary entry dated 6 June 1951 from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[costumeloverz71]

Evening dress, 1922. Callot Soeurs.

[gatabella]

Paulette Goddard, c.1930s

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1954-1957

Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa

[roseillith]

DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (1991) dir JULIE DASH

[the1920sinpictures]

1922 Ira Perrot with her own portrait painted by Tamara de Lempicka. They were close friends and on-off lovers until about 1930. From Art Deco, Avant Garde and Modernism.