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Archive for Modern Vintage

1950s-1960s feathered hat

November 6, 2011 by Kay
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This is a lovely feathered hat which I dated to the late 50s or early 60s. It had white and black feathers in it, creating a soft, fluffy, and totally “mod” look. In one of these 1950s styled photos, I posed the model with a hat box.

1950s style portrait
1950s feathered hat and hat box

large feathered hat
1960s feathered hat

Categories : Modern Vintage Tags : 1950s, 1960s, hat, hat box, hat fashions, modern vintage

WWII WAC Uniform, Part I

November 4, 2011 by Kay

A few months ago I got to borrow this World War II Womens Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC and later WAC) uniform with matching garrison cap from a local historical society.

A little bit of history about this version of the WAC uniform that I found online:

Due to harsh criticism of unsatisfactory fitting and material of the first WAAC uniforms many revisions had to be made. 
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A new jacket was developed, with a better-fitting prolonged upper collar. The bulky breast pockets that caused unwanted fullness of the bust were replaced by simulated pockets with buttoned flaps. 
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Because of the prolonged collar other parts of the jacket automatically were set lower: the breast pockets, the button closure and the slit pockets. The whole jacket was a little bit longer now as well. Unfortunately, the bottom button was set too low so that one had to unbutton the jacket for comfortable sitting.
Another problem was that the new jackets were tailored by men’s garment contractors and therefore became too stiff and appeared awkward. 
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The skirt pattern was also revised. The previous straightcut of the gores caused wrinkling and rolling of the skirt. Therefore the new skrirt was rounded at the hips to fit better to the actual female figure.

This WAC uniform was almost in new condition and still had ironing seams! The army dress shirt may or may not have gone with it, because it was disproportionately huge.

I’ve previously posted these on my main photography site.

Modern WPAA Photo
Retro Photographer St. Louis - WPAA woman
Vintage photographer STL - WWII woman photo
1940s style photograph - St. Louis Fashion Photographer
WPAA outfit - St. louis Pinup Photographer
WPAA uniform portrait - St. Louis vintage photographer
World War II era photograph
1940s retro photograph stl
1940s photograph headshot stlouis
vintage modeling st louis
Categories : Modern Vintage Tags : 1940s, military uniform, WAAC, WAAC Uniform, WAC, WAC uniform, women in the military, world war 2, WWII

1800s Winter Outfit – modern vintage photography

September 11, 2011 by Kay

Here are quite alot of pictures of a the full length 1890s velvet cloak, bonnet, and rabbit fur hand muff that I mostly didn’t post in my photography portfolio. They aren’t necessarily “amazing” photos, but they demonstrate the fit and finer details of the black velvet bonnet, cloak with a rabbit fur lined hood (it was falling apart, but the fur was so incredibly soft), and the rather plain hand muff.

The material is well made and luxurious. I can imagine the owner wearing this out on social visits around St. Louis, perhaps going for a sleigh ride or Christmas Caroling…

1800s winter bonnet
1890s style photography
1800s velvet bonnett
1800s velvet cloak, velvet bonnett, and rabbit fur hand muff

1800s winter bonnet, hand muff, and cloak
1800s style headshot
1890s bonnett and headshot
1890s winter fashion

1890s style photography
1800s velvet bonnett
1800s winter bonnet, hand muff, and cloak
1890s winter fashion

1800s winter bonnet
1800s winter bonnet, hand muff, and cloak
1800s winter bonnet, hand muff, and cloak
1890s winter fashion

1890s winter fashion
1800s torn cloak
1890s style photo
1800s velvet cloak, velvet bonnett, and rabbit fur hand muff

1800s winter bonnet
1800s winter cloak
1890s winter fashion
1800s style headshot

1800s rabbit fur hand muff
1800s winter bonnet, hand muff, and cloak
1800s velvet cloak, velvet bonnett, and rabbit fur hand muff
1800s velvet bonnett detail

1890s winter fashion
1800s winter bonnet
1800s winter bonnet
1800s winter bonnet

1800s style headshot
1800s winter outfit
1800s winter cloak
1890s style photography

1800s velvet bonnett
1800s outfit
1800s velvet cloak, velvet bonnett, and rabbit fur hand muff

Categories : Modern Vintage Tags : 1800s winter fashion, 1890s, 1890s fashion, 1890s winter fashion, bonnet, bonnett, cloak, hand muff, hat, modern vintage photography, winter fashion, winterwear

1920s Wedding Dress and Veil Modern Portraits

September 8, 2011 by Kay

I shot these photos of my friend Anita, modeling a 1920s wedding dress and veil that were borrowed from the Carondelet Historic Society. This is an ongoing project to visually, digitally, preserve their clothing and accessories collection. When I showed this first batch of photos (along with the WWII WAC uniform and Old Hollywood Style Portraits) to their board of directors last week, they asked me to borrow more and take more photos of models wearing their clothing and accessories :-)

I am trying to photograph the clothing with the makeup and hair styles, posing, and basic lighting styles that would be true to the period that it’s from. Ditto for the accessories like hats. The clothing and accessories that I’m borrowing are rather un-sorted, and mostly un-labeled, and I’m enjoying the randomness of grabbing whatever catches my eye until my plastic carrying tub is full.

I’m also posting these photos on my photography services site, ReverieRevel.com, but as this site is specifically geared towards vintage, I am including details and stories that I don’t write about on my photo-blog/site.

This 1920s wedding dress and veil were packaged together, and the bridal veil was in near perfect condition.

1920s wedding dress photo
This is the coloring as I shot it
This is the coloring as I shot it
1920s style bridal photograph

1920s modern posed wedding dress and veil
1920s veil and wedding dress
1920s wedding dress and veil St. Louis

1920s wedding dress and veil photo
1920s wedding dress and veil photo
1920s bridal veil detail

Categories : Modern Vintage Tags : 1920s, 1920s bridal photograph, 1920s bridal veil photo, 1920s dress, 1920s wedding dress, 1920s wedding dress photo, modern vintage, retro photography

Old Hollywood Glamour Portraits

August 30, 2011 by Kay

I met Anita thru a guy I met on Twitter. It was pretty random, and I had no idea what she looked like until she showed up. I’d emailed her asking to come prepared to do her makeup in the styles of the 1920s and 1930s. So far, she’s the only model I’ve shot who’se done her own research and self-styled her makeup with such care to little details. Her efforts and obviously having researched the poses and expressions of the era, pushed me to do my best.

Anita has never posed for a camera before, but you couldn’t tell from the pictures, and I wouldn’t have been able to tell from working with her!

I was pretty excited with how this set of Old Hollywood Glamour headshots turned out. I wish the slip had been longer, we would have gotten full body…

When I showed these and her other pictures to my boyfriend’s dad who works at a local historical society, he showed them to other board members, and everyone was very pleased with the images I got of the loaned accessories and clothing.

Old Hollywood Style Portrait
1930s style fur, hat, and slip
Fur veiled 1930s hat portrait

Veiled hat- 1930s style portrait
1930s style portraiture
1930s portrait

1930s style hat and fur and gloves
1930s style portrait

PS: More slides coming soon, but for now my scanner is on loan, and the slides I did scan are on a network drive which is having connection problems :-(

Categories : Modern Vintage Tags : 1930s, 1930s fashion, 1930s portrait, old Hollywood Glamour Portraits, pinup photographer st. louis, portraits, retro headshots, Retro Photographer St. Louis, retro portrait, unique headshots stl, Vintage photographer St. Louis

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