Everyday Women of the Golden Era

[LizzieMaine]

Oh my -- that gal on the end in the last pic is wearing *bedroom slippers.* Clearly she is holed up in a farmhouse with her accomplices, hiding from the fashion police.

 

[cherry lips]

Amy Jeanne, thank you for posting those amazing pics! I enjoyed your comments too. Even the sloppy girl has immaculte hair in the last pic. Are they all from the 30s?

 

[La Julia]

I love going through all these pictures!

 

[Miss Golightly]

This is my favourite photo of my Mum which was taken when she was 14 years old. It's not a scan so the quality is not the best:

 

[cherry lips]

Oh my! Your mother is beautiful. Is the photo colorized? When is it from? Her lipstick looks so pretty and dark.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Oh my! Your mother is beautiful. Is the photo colorized? When is it from? Her lipstick looks so pretty and dark.

Thanks Cherry Lips! The photo is sepia toned and was taken in 1947 in a photographers studio here in Dublin that is still going strong!

I think lipstick was all she was allowed to wear as she was getting her portrait done! Her hair is as pin straight as mine is (although she's rocking the blonde these days!) and I love the way she curled it - she used one of those antique irons - when I was a teenager she heated the tongs up on the gas and tried to curl my fringe but instead melted it! She had to cut the melted bits off so I had a lovely lop-sided fringe for quite some time!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

More gals from Duyrea, PA. All these are from between 1938 and 1943...

 

[Amy Jeanne]

And some guys for good measure:

 

[kamikat]

I love this latest batch of photos! As someone who has recently given up high heels for daily wear, I love seeing so many women in "sensible shoes"!

 

[HadleyH]

This is my favourite photo of my Mum which was taken when she was 14 years old. It's not a scan so the quality is not the best:

Your Mum was a beautiful lady Miss Golightly! :eusa_clap

 

[Miss Golightly]

Your Mum was a beautiful lady Miss Golightly! :eusa_clap

Thanks HadleyH - she's really an incredible lady - she'll be 77 this year and is the most young at heart person I know - incredibly sprightly. Just back from a trip to New York and Washington as well - I hope I'm that full of gusto when I get to her age!!!!!!!!!

 

[BoPeep]

I'm crazy about striped dresses!! Love the way they set the stripes in various directions to accent or create movement.

 

[swingkitten85]

I'm loving all these photos you posted, Amy Jeanne! Thanks for sharing these. I just adore looking at the way people dressed on a daily basis back in the day. I think the gal's dress on the left is my favorite (polka dots!)--I want to see more of it! Not to mention her hair looks thick and crazy like mine is, which makes me feel so much better that I don't have "movie star" hair! haha!

 

[Blondie]

Amy Jeanne ~ thank you so much for posting the wonderful pics you found !
I find them so inspiring !!!

 

[CherryRed]

One of my great-Aunt's. My Mom just came across this yesterday. We were marveling at the number of rats she must have needed to do her hair like this.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

HAIR!! That's something I will never accomplish lol

Here's some family shots I recently scanned:

Don't remember if I posted these before because I see I have deleted all my old Photobucket pics. If so, enjoy again!

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Not to be morbid or anything (though I'm the most morbid person I know), but these "Everyday Women" come from gravestones. I can't help it -- I think these are the most beautiful portraits I've ever seen.

She's my favourite.

There's a great group on Flickr called "I See Dead People" and it's ALL of these photo ceramics if you're into this kind of thing.

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

I love those cemetery photos too. A lot of people are disturbed by them, but to me, it's lovely to see the humanity beyond the name. I've photographed a few from the cemeteries around me, but they're not real common, and often they've been pried off the stone and stolen.

 

[Marla]

Thank you for posting those! It's an unusual source we wouldn't otherwise see.

 

[cherry lips]

Not to be morbid or anything (though I'm the most morbid person I know), but these "Everyday Women" come from gravestones. I can't help it -- I think these are the most beautiful portraits I've ever seen.

I didn't know that these portraits existed! How common are they?
The only thing disturbing is Death itself, and pics of pretty girls on graves won't change that either way. Thanks! They look like movie stars. Oh, and they reminded me of this: