This weekend, I am mostly dressing casual...

...like today's birthday girl, the glorious Miss Dorothy Lamour (10th December 1914 – 22nd September 1996)!

Sex that got civilised

"Glamour is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement."

Not bad for a gal of 100!

Dorothy Lamour (born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton, 10th December 1914 – 22nd September 1996)

I think today should be...

Maria Montez


Dorothy Lamour


Mrs Irving Penn


Lisa Fonssagrives


'Life' magazine cover, 1937

...a Lilly Daché "Say Something Hat Day". Don't you?

“Buying a hat is an emotional thing. When a woman is in the full glory of youth and beauty, she buys a hat to cap the climax of her glamour. When she grows old, she buys a hat to turn back a little the relentless hands of time.”

“...with each hat is a story. It is the story of the woman who wore the hat and why she bought it; the people she loved and the people she hated; the places she went and the things that happened to her, perhaps because of the hat. A woman’s hat is close to her heart…it is her way of saying to the world: 'See, this is what I am like!', or 'This is how I should like to be.'”



Lilly Daché (10th October 1898 – 31st December 1989)

Sarong lady

"I was the happiest and highest paid straight woman in the business."

"I made 60 motion pictures and only wore the sarong in about six pictures, but it did become a kind of trademark."
Dorothy Lamour (10th December 1914 - 22nd September 1996)

"She was a lady of quality, beauty and class."
Bob Hope