Worker-Dandyist.
Talent(lessness) behind Proletkult Graphik.
Listener of boss sounds from swing to garage to punk to folk to Northern.
Bad, bad Lindy hopper.
Proudly proletarian Red.
Lover of the nylon-clad and high-heeled female leg.
Hater of almost everything but especially averse to fashion (as opposed to style), post-modernist nonsense, the destruction of language, laminate flooring and wankers who leave dogshit everywhere.
(I will also moan periodically about the state of modern day trousers and the idiots who wear them.)
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Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen
I chatted the guys up after the show and asked them if I could do their portrait the next day, they agreed so I got...
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Clairvoyant Liz (by paul.malon)
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Detail from front board of Practical Family Knitting Illustrated, 1947 reprint.
If I had a son this is how I would dress him for school.
From Practical Family Knitting Illustrated, 1947 reprint.
From Beauty Parade, December 1946.
Laura Gordon in Beauty Parade, December 1946.
Dorville ad from Country Life, January 5th 1945.
Square, pointed, oval and fanned beards.
From Coiffure Masculine by Joseph Anzalric, 1942.
Sterling silver ring by Margaret De Patta. From Design Quarterly 33, 1955. Year that ring was made is not mentioned.
From Woman’s Fair, May 1940
Miracle, 1946.
Ads from The Miracle, April 27th 1946.
Detail from Red Star Weekly, August 7th 1946.
Not, unfortunately, an organ of the revolutionary working class.
Red Star Weekly, August 7th 1946.
Vivian Baker in Beauty Parade, October 1947.
Virginia Busch in Beauty Parade, October 1947.
Spanking glamazons from Beauty Parade, October 1947.
