He still smokes his pipe and wears a suit, even when he's started decorating the house! Who is he?
Designing, not decorating! That's Paul Mccobb.
The furniture gets me off as much as the clothes.
I've got that same Planner Group sofa and lounge chair as above.
^ I think the 'freshman queen candidates' would be better company than these blokes.
The freshman queen candidates are women by the way - not part of the Wittenburg University Gay Society (which did not exist -officially - in 1958)
The English country gent transported to Urban America. Lovely find.
I doubt I could pull that look off but I like it.
The shoulders in both these ads are superb. Ivy at the end of it's time in the spotlight.
Reeeeal bad.
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And I'm sure the female equivalent was considerably more flattering to women than the earlier styles, which tended towards the sexless.
Even when I see really attractive women in photos or films from the 50s and 60s, the styles don't seem to do them many favours.
You mentioned before that you quite like 70s style Yuca. I like some stuff from the decade, but a hell of a lot was over the top and the above picture falls into that category for me. Now daisy dukes look I can dig .
That Edwardian look stuff does nothing for me bop, I do like the American continental look though, a bit of Italian style mixed with ivy works well.
I think ott was the norm in the ghetto in that era, at least amongst the fashion conscious. As a style to draw from nowadays, I can see it has little or nothing, but I still think it looks great. I used to buy a lot of 70s music (funk, jazz, soul etc) and watch blaxploitation films avidly, and I even attempted to recreate some of the styles, however I now know they're best left in the past, to be admired for what they were but never aspired to or repeated.