TheFederalist: Rather than looking to the cult of celebrity for fashion icons, millennials need a modern muse to awaken in them a desire for a sense of genuine style.
“Does anybody want to be elegant rather than sexy?” asked Frenchwoman Jacqueline de Ribes. Born into an aristocratic family and blessed with unique beauty and a nose like Cleopatra, Jacqueline reveled in adorning her swanlike figure in gowns as elaborate as those of Marie Antoinette.
De Ribes had an insatiable appetite for creativity—she would tear apart her couture gowns to create new and elaborate styles. Her silhouette transfixed the eyes, and her presence captured the hearts of the men who surrounded her, from notable designers to noblemen. She made waves with her eccentric yet classic style, renowned in both her native Paris and abroad in America for her unsurpassed beauty, captivating charm, and swanlike grace.
h/t Aunt Liz.
Thank goodness!
A relief from Lena!
From one end of the spectrum to the other – or is that rectum…
Women back then had class. Elegant is sexy. Today they’re just trashy. They don’t leave much to the imagination. It’s like getting your Christmas gifts unwrapped.
And yet (or should I say yeti), for role models we are offered mooch and cankles.
What a world…
An elegant lady is nearly always effortlessly sexy. Even if she ain’t too pretty. Fact.
Class is sexy. Poise is sexy. Fact.
Thanks MJA for sharing something gorgeous.
Do you sew? Ever seen the Vintage Vogue series of patterns? Classic elegant style.
Most young guy’s don’t know what they are missing.
I oogle at those patterns Eugenia. I actually have a few from when they were actually sold – at least the ones in the late ’50s. Unfortunately I’m too old to want to do the extensive tailoring or intricate work that some of them require. Plus, my waist has thickened a bit since then. 🙂
Honey, most young guys don’t know how to wear a suit properly! They think the pants hang on their hips and the break is some sloppy folds of fabric obscuring their black sports shoes. Don’t start me on a Windsor knot. Gaa!
That should have said, …since they were originally sold (in the 50s).
I do sew, Eugenia.
Intermediate. lol.
I’ve purchased ‘vintage style’ patterns from McCalls and the others.
[Pencil skirts, tea length dresses, etc.]
My maid of honor dress for my sister’s wedding was exactly as the photo on the left, (sans the scarf) in Peacock Blue. I wore gold shoes and gold/pearl accessories. Still have the dress, and I’m shocked, but it still fits. LOL.
I love cutting old shirts, dresses and whatever apart and making something else from them. My family always comes to me before they throw stuff out or donates them. 🙂
Elegance, as with glamour, are VERBOTEN in today’s culture.
Likewise with cars, and much more in design (post modern/deconstructivist architecture, anyone?).
Part of the push of Cultural Marxism.
Can we please use this article as an addendum to the dress code for New York City Family Court?
When you work in a court, you are supposed to dress like an attorney–even if you aren’t one. Instead, what I’m seeing on the female clerical staff is jeans, cleavage-revealing tops, disco-era footwear, loud prints, wild hairstyles, multiple piercings, tattos……I stand out like a sore thumb in my twinset sweaters, paisley skirts, dress flats, sedate silver hoop earrings, and Tiffany pearls. I am CONSTANTLY being mistaken for a judge–which i view as an absolute sin oF success. And yet one of my Hispanic colleagues informed me that I dress like “a boring preppie white woman.”
The lot of them can kiss my fat white ass.
Notice the beauty of the woman Pre-Augumentation.
I meant Women,more coffee please.
Classy IS sexy. Even if it’s only (?) pretty, and not beautiful.
And there is a difference between “style” and “fad”.
One is forever, the other is for the moment.
I leave it to you to figure out which is which.
Yes! I do the same which is another reason I haunt a certain thrift store. Last year someone dumped off very vintage Schiaparelli . A complete outfit plus a bunch of accessories. I guess the owner died. It was all priced dirt cheap because no one recognized the name. They also dumped some Lily Pulitzer dresses.
I had a field day.
….Can we please use this article as an addendum to the dress code for New York City Family Court…
Yes! As well as tv journalists. Why do 99% of them dress like they are just about to leave for a cocktail party, in the summer?
Bring back the suit. Let our young ladies know that Hillary is doint it wrong!