click any photo to enlarge...like today's birthday girl, Art Deco icon Miss Billie Dove!
CAMP: "A cornucopia of frivolity, incongruity, theatricality, and humour." "A deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love." "The lie that tells the truth." "Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals."
1930s style!
ReplyDeleteRemarkably, she actually retired in 1933! This is 1920s-style-ee... Jx
DeleteI think if any thing the 20's were a bit more wild than the 30's
ReplyDeleteEither way the inter-war years are a fascinating time.
Don't know whether it's morning or night
Only know it's sounding right
So come on in and play me
Le Jazz Hot maybe
Cause I love my jazz... HOT
Certainly a most stylish era indeed. We'd have loved it - if we were rich. and "Bright Young Things"... Jx
DeleteBillie Dove! You are so much fun, dear. I like the headdress in pic #2. I can't imagine wearing any of those fashions... so much work. And it could not be comfortable to sit in. But I love that time period. Thanks for sharing. Kizzes.
ReplyDeleteShe had to suffer for her art - such elaborate gowns were definitely not for sitting down in, that much is clear. They were for "being seen in". Jx
DeleteShe was obviously versatile and could make a lot of different styles work .
ReplyDeleteShe looks like Bernardette Peters in the top pic.
It's not for nothing that she, with Clara Bow, was America's most popular actress of the 1920s - yet her career never went far once the talkies arrived [maybe she suffered from the same "accent problem" as "Lina Lamont" in Singin' in the Rain? We'll never know...]. Her sheer versatility in a variety of costume roles must have been a spectacle to behold! Jx
DeletePS Yes - I often though Miss Peters took a lot of her influences from those classic "bubble-haired" divas of the Golden Age of Hollywood.