Tell-tale...

I discovered as soon as i told one person about our task of making a film noir OTS, everybody knew! i musnt complain because these people who found out without me even i informing them have given me some WOW objects to borrow!

The first person who came to me let me borrow some 1950's magazines and a book which is quaintly called "Christian Dior's little dictionary of fashion" - "A guide to dress for every woman". Lovely. To really make use of these borrowed finds, i have going to scan them so i ca look at them for longer than i actually have them. Unfortunately the magazine is a big as a newspaper today, so the sides of the scanned images have been cut off, but i am making sure i scan the most important part of that page!

This 'every Thursday' magazine was on sale on September 18 1954. Other than noticing her fringe, what also caught my eye was that compared to the magazines sold today, this specific mag is very simple with not too much fuss - probably explaining the way women were back in the 50's.

You should never judge a book by its cover, so i happily looked inside to look for inspiration to how women were back then for my curiosity. This is my finding:

WOW. Glamourous! I did notice that the blonde woman compared to the brunette is shown as much mor beautiful and glamourous eventhough the brunette is the 'queen'. The man seems to be more interested in the blonde much more than he is into the brunette.

This was from an article called 'Notes on Coats' - very catchy. I have got a coat very simlar to these so im very pleased.   

Everytime i read old 50's magazines and newspapers, you always get a sense of the woman being very 'house-wife-ish'. However, in film noirs, the women are shown as very powerful and independant - they do not need a husband to survive.

Please excuse the awful ebay-like photo i took of the glasses i was given to borrow. They are silver framed with gold swirly detail. Im hopeing these will suit my actress, if not, it doesnt matter as i could concentrate on something else - it would be nice to do a close-up shot. The specs have VERY thick glass on them, and i hope the light doesnt bounce off of them too much because it would look ridiculous and wouldnt fit the glamour and class of the character im trying to portray.

This is just one double-page from the Christian Dior dictionary. The photos in this book has given me lots of inspiration on how i can take the photos showing my costumes. The best way to capture my 1950's costumes is to shoot the photos the 1950's way!