#letterlust

[incorrectbnhavillainsworld]

Twice: I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm gonna ask where they're going so I can hook up with 'em later.

Shigaraki: [sighing deeply, pinching his nose]

Overhaul: ...I'm sorry, what?

[bikedweeb]

(via Bicycle and 1943 British fashion design by Norman Hartnell… | Flickr)

Bicycle and 1943 British fashion design by Norman Hartnell

Just a nice picture taken from a Dutch 1950s ladies magazine. I found it while I was looking for bicycle ads in a pile of all kinds of magazines.

During the Second World War (1939–1945) Hartnell was subject to the same government trading and rationing restrictions as everyone else, the number of buttons, fastenings and even amount and components of embroideries were all calculated – and rationed.

He joined the Home Guard and maintained his designing career with government sponsored collections for show and sale to overseas buyers, competing with the Occupied French and German designers, but also a growing band of American designers.

Private clients ordered new clothes within the restrictions or had existing clothes altered. This also applied to The Queen, who appeared in her best possible clothes in bombed areas around the country. Hartnell received her endorsement to design elegant and innovative clothes conforming to strict rationing , mass produced by Berkertex with whom he entered a business relationship that continued into the 1950s.

He became the first great designer involved with mass production on a large and varied scale, not simply clothing women, but lifting morale.

[irishgra]

@chetbox typeface is everything #letterlust (at Shoreditch)

[urbanadventureleague]

Lady and gentleman with bicycles in French or Walloon street by letterlust on Flickr.

[bassman5911]

06 Ritalin Bike - Dresden 2011 by letterlust on Flickr.

[bassman5911]

French Electric Tandem around 1900, ridden by Dacier & Jalabert by letterlust on Flickr.

This tandem électrique was an invention of the Frenchmen de Clerc et Pingault. On Mai 22 1897 this tandem rode 1 km in 57 4/5 seconds.

[rollersinstinct]

Porteur bike racing at Jordaanfeesten Amsterdam in the 1930s and found on letterlust's Flickr page.