‘What the women would slip on underneath their wardrobe in the 1920s when they attend parties at the Gatsby’
From last year: La Perla’s Black Label collection. Article here.
Found via LifestyleAsia
The text of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on one big poster. Available here.
Found via Alice Woodruff
Photograph by Kent Hall.
Taken at the 2007 Gatsby Summer Afternoon, held annually by the Art Deco Society of California.
‘Cleavage, surrealism, and jaunty music – Yep, it’s a Fleischer cartoon!’ -IMDB user review
Before Betty Boop and Popeye: 1932 advertisement for Oldsmobile from the great Fleischer animation studio.
With nifty sing-along, bouncing ball animated lettering.
In My Merry Oldsmobile, performed by The Jean Goldkette Orchestra.
Tiger Rag, performed by Bix Beiderbecke and the Wolverines.
I’m All A-Twitter (And All A-Twirl), performed by Jesse Stafford & His Orchestra. From the film Close Harmony (1929).
Comes Love, performed by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, feat. Helen Forrest.
This also appeared on our wedding mix tape.
Cole Porter’s Just One of Those Things, performed by the Benny Goodman Sextet. From 1945.
Sing Sing Sing, rare 9-minute version performed by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra.
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