Printed 40s (and some late 30s and early 50s) fabrics have been on my mind lately, especially big bold florals with a sweeping hand painted look, and prints involving ribbons. I’m working on a dress in a print that has all these aspects and I think it’s going to be spectacular.

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Autumn is here again, so I think it’s time for another autumn picture post!

I always get very excited about autumn clothes. This year I’m all about college girl fashions of the 40s and 50s, especially since I recently watched Mona Lisa Smile which I can highly recommend for all its wonderful early 50s collegiate clothes.

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While we’re currently having some cold weather and snow here, spring has definitely arrived, at least on some days! I feel like wearing light colours, suits and pretty hats.

Here are some photos of great spring outfits!

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I have shown a few of these pictures in earlier theme posts, but I think Dorothy Dandridge deserves a post of her own.

I haven’t seen any of her movies yet, but I think she’s incredibly beautiful and has amazing style. I think there is something similar about her and Marilyn Monroe, not so much their looks as the kind of feel about them.

I also have a another post lined up of a Dorothy Dandridge photo series I found in the LIFE archive!

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Merry Christmas! In case you didn’t know, Christmas eve is the big day for Christmas festivities in Sweden.

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We’ve had an unusually warm autumn and early winter, and snow has been very scarce. Snowless winter is one of the few things that really get me down.

This morning everything was finally white. Unfortunately also very wet, and melting as I write, but I think it’s time for a winter wear themed post!

Often vintage winter wear looks really cold to me. People seem to have gone without hats that cover their ears a lot, even in cold Sweden, and I just don’t understand how they did it! Anyway, for this post I tried to find winter wear that actually looks warm enough to wear for a proper cold winter.

The catalog scans were found in the Sears archives at Ancestry.com, and the Burda archives.

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I’m on the lookout for the perfect fuchsia lipstick, so I though I’d do a theme post about just that!

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A while back I asked for suggestions for themed photo posts and someone said sunglasses, which is a great idea! I decided to include regular glasses as well though. Feel free to suggest more themes you’d like to see! It’s getting harder and harder to come up with new ones.

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A few non witch Halloween pictures featuring movie stars.

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Just one week until Halloween! I’ll be posting only Halloween stuff this week, so lets start with some stars and starlets posing as witches! Of course, I’ve already made a post about one of my favourite Hollywood witches.

Many of these photos were found on the blog Sexy Witch.

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