Balenciaga evening dress, 1939
From the Cristobal Balenciaga Museum
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in “The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle” - 1939
Hair ornament
Cartier, 1930
Sotheby’s
OH MAN
Black Velvet Evening Gown, Lace and velvet capelet attached at bust, straight fit, fully lined. 1930s.
Evening Dress
Madeleine Vionnet, 1936
Josephine Baker c. 1933
In which Josephine Baker wins every award the internet has. Everyone else go home.
Walter Plunkett design sketches for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in the 1939 film Gone With the Wind