1920s Texas - In Color!
10 March 2011 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nuranarThe Glamour Daze blog just posted some color/colorized photos from the 1920s. Besides being super pretty colors anyway, I adore being able to see actual clothes, in actual color, on real people.
I actually only saw a few of them on the Vintage Baroness's blog entry, when the last one in her entry all but electrified me.
Wait - are those BLUEBONNETS?!
Bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas, are such a bright, vivid blue that they tint the whole landscape when they bloom. Their shape is so distinctive that I was pretty sure from this picture. Plus the scanty grass, hard-looking ground, and scrubby stuff in the background looked definitely like Texas. But seriously - what are the odds?! Sure enough, Glamour Daze credits the photo to Laredo, down on the Rio Grande.
There's another Texas one, too, really more interesting in terms of costuming.
Women archers in Austin, 1928. What a great view of everyday clothing and shoes for a moderately athletic activity! I can tell you for sure this isn't summer - it's probably well into the fall, since there aren't any bare branches in the background. In the summer it would be way too hot for those cardigans.
And while I'm at it, here's a couple more of my favorite pictures, not from Texas.
From Oxford in 1928. I want that raincoat AND rain hat!
Now from 1929, in Arizona. Are those birds on her frock?
I actually only saw a few of them on the Vintage Baroness's blog entry, when the last one in her entry all but electrified me.
Wait - are those BLUEBONNETS?!
Bluebonnets, the state flower of Texas, are such a bright, vivid blue that they tint the whole landscape when they bloom. Their shape is so distinctive that I was pretty sure from this picture. Plus the scanty grass, hard-looking ground, and scrubby stuff in the background looked definitely like Texas. But seriously - what are the odds?! Sure enough, Glamour Daze credits the photo to Laredo, down on the Rio Grande.
There's another Texas one, too, really more interesting in terms of costuming.
Women archers in Austin, 1928. What a great view of everyday clothing and shoes for a moderately athletic activity! I can tell you for sure this isn't summer - it's probably well into the fall, since there aren't any bare branches in the background. In the summer it would be way too hot for those cardigans.
And while I'm at it, here's a couple more of my favorite pictures, not from Texas.
From Oxford in 1928. I want that raincoat AND rain hat!
Now from 1929, in Arizona. Are those birds on her frock?
