Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Thursday, November 5, 2026

shoe foolery: low visibility or disruptive dazzle style?

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Above Artist's signature unreadable, Camouflage Applied to Footwear in Boot and Shoe Recorder (New York), August 17, 1918, p. 24.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026

the boudoir camouflage strategies of women in 1914

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Above Maurice Ketten , "Fashion Fancies" in The Evening World Daily Magazine (New York), February 26, 1914. ••• Anon, from Morni...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

Hidden Humor / World War One camouflage cartoons

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I have just premiered a new 14-minute documentary video talk, titled HIDDEN HUMOR: World War One Cartoonists' Views of Camouflage . It i...
Saturday, May 9, 2026

swimmingly attired / a dazzling disguise at the beach

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Above Dazzle-patterned beach attire , which became a fashion craze near the end of World War I. Digital coloring. ••• News item in the San...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

alas, Grace Ripley's camouflaged gown has arrived

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Ruth St. Denis in costume (NYPL) Anon, " TIS HERE! THE CAMOUFLAGE GOWN! FAIR ARTIST HOOVERIZES DRESS in Oakland Tribune (Oakland CA),...
Sunday, December 14, 2025

the camouflage craze / a book on camou mania now

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Camou Mania CAMOU MANIA A stunningly designed, richly illustrated book on inventive applications of camouflage in fashion and other aspec...
Monday, November 24, 2025

will shoe makers soon decree that shoes be dissimilar

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Above Giacomo Balla , Sketches for Futurist clothing (1914). See Caroline Galambosova, How Italian Futurism Influenced Fashion (2025). •••...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

hollywood leg enhancer is biting the legs that feed him

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Hazel Canning , EXPERTS ON FEMININE LEGS PUT CHARACTER ABOVE BEAUTY in Boston Sunday Post , April 29, 1945, p. 5— Willy of Hollywood [dba W...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

I can transform anyone into whatever they want to be

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Above Cartoon by W.K. Haselden in The Daily Mirror, January 14, 1918. ••• EDITH HEAD (Hollywood costume designer), as interviewed in The...
Monday, June 23, 2025

circumvent the heat by disguising oneself as a julep

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Above Roy R. Behrens, from a series of digital montages, produced during the COVID pandemic. Copyright © the artist. Online here . ••• O. Ha...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

women are expert camoufleurs / it is their middle name

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Cartoon, Fay King 1918 CAMOUFLAGE IS MIDDLE NAME OF WOMAN: EXPERIENCED IN KEEPING WILLIE ‘HALF-FARE’: IF SHE CAN PAINT RED CRAWFISH ON PLATT...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

New York City bootblack camouflages woman's legs

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Above This news photograph, with the headline LOOK, GIRLS’ COOLER’N SILK HOSE , appeared in the Arizona Republican (August 3, 1919) with t...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

as styles evolve, no need to camouflage chunky feet

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Above This is strange. It’s a news article from the Boston Sunday Globe , dated July 2, 1939, page 2 (only weeks before the outbreak in Eur...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

1928 tassle camouflage women's beach wear in france

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Anon (signature unreadable) CAMOUFLAGE FOR SHAPELESS LEGS in The Boston Advertiser , September 9, 1928— A new Deauville* fashion is for wom...
Monday, December 5, 2022

Camouflage Cartoons Archive online at ScholarWorks

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Online Camouflage Cartoons Archive How wonderful! I couldn’t be more pleased with the latest efforts of the ScholarWorks staff at the Univer...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

she was not only good in math, science & philosophy

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Frida Kahlo Barbara Mujica , Frida: A Novel . Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2001, pp. 102-103— “Everyone said I had an eye for color,” she tol...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

WWII charming camouflage fashions for mothers to be

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Margaret Brentnall, John Hutton, Artist and Glass Engraver . Philadelphia PA: Art Alliance Press, 1986, pp. 40 and 45— The [World War II Bri...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

latest terpsichorean fads in WWI wartime dancing

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“CAMOUFLAGE WALTZ” AND “AIRPLANE SPIN” LATEST TERPSICHOREAN STEPS in The Des Moines Register (Des Moines IA), June 11, 1918— Chicago, June...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

not hardly the last of the (dreadful) camouflage jokes

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Above THE LAST (?) OF THE CAMOUFLAGE JOKES , cartoon (artist's signature unclear) from London Opinion reprinted in The Brooklyn Daily ...
Friday, January 29, 2021

measles, camouflage and asymmetrical shoes in 1918

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SHOES DIFFER IN COLOR in the Davenport Democrat and Leader (Davenport IA), March 1, 1925, p. 3— Futurism, cubism or some other art complex...