Here are some catalog photos of purses. The color page is fro the 1950s. The other two pictures are from the 1920s. Maybe my flapper doll will get a new purse.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
YET MORE MOD
YET MORE MOD
For an issue of my, now retired, newsletter that featured Mod fashions I decided to do a paper doll of some of my own clothes from the 1960s. When I could get an outfit with several parts I did it. The white mohair pea jacket had a wool miniskirt and wool bell bottoms and a striped sweater. It was expensive but worth every penny.The pinstriped suit had cuffed pants also. I loved wearing my Dad's old ties with some of my outfits. The Nehru jacket and love beads are more hippie than Mod but what the heck.
I don't like having my picture taken so there aren't lots of them but here is a pic of me after I had my hair cut into the twiggy do.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
MOD DOLLS
Part 4
Dolls that define the Mod Era are the Mod Barbies including Francie,
Twiggy, and Julia (Diahann Carroll).
Crissy and Velvet have both Mod and Hippie clothes. The 6” tall Dawn line has a remarkable Mod
wardrobe. Tiffany Taylor, although more disco era, has the exaggerated eye make
-up that I remember wearing.
In the late 1990s Doug James and Laura Meisner introduced
the Somers and Field dolls. According to
their story line Willow Somers and Daisy Fields were “Mod Birds” who lived in
London in the 1960s. Their fathers owned the Somers and Field department
store. Willow is British and Daisy is
British/Indian. This line was made by
Knickerbocker and their clothes represent the designers’ love affair with the
Mod era.
Look at the pictures here and see if you remember having any
of these outfits. Not sure if you were a
hippie or a Mod? Then, my dear, you must
have been a square.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
MOD DOLLS
Part 3
Both sexes wore clothes decorated with the Union Jack or Pop
Art designs. Dessert boots or Beatle
boots were popular with both sexes.
What were the social changes that influenced this movement? You have a group of young people who came of
age well after WWII. They grew up in a
world with a strong middle class. Mod
culture was influenced by music, notably R&B and blues. The sappy pop music
produced for white teens in the ‘50s was rejected. Mod
youngsters would often hang out at coffee houses, enjoying the music and
meeting other Mods.
Of note, more young women were working albeit often at low
paying jobs. If you were a young woman
out and about you would want to mark your place in the world and what better
way to do it than clothes? When you
reject your mother’s clothes, you reject your mother’s values (you think). You are defining the world and your place in
it for yourself.
Colorforms Dawn Dolls
Monday, January 27, 2014
Mod Era
Part 2
Part 2
For girls it was the
mini skirt, tights, and go-go boots. The
androgynous look was also popular for girls.
The peacock wing evolved into what was known as the Swinging London
style. Eyes were what counted when it
came to makeup. Dramatic eye makeup was
enhanced with false eyelashes. Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton and Peggy Moffit were the icons
for this movement.
Both sexes wore clothes decorated with the Union Jack or Pop Art designs. Dessert boots or Beatle boots were popular
with both sexes.
Saturday, January 18, 2014
I have been working on a program about the Mod Era for one of my doll clubs. Here's a little of the program plus a couple of Flatsies and a doll from the Willow and Daisy series. My Mod Era paper doll book is still available.
The Mod Era
The Mod Era
The Mod Era began in England the early 196os and rapidly
spread to youths around the world. It is
believed to be the successor to the Beatniks,
Mod being short for Modernists, a term the Beatniks used. Mod culture unlike the co-existent Hippie
culture embraced consumerism.
In Mod culture clothing was very important. If you think about the early Beatles in their
well-tailored tight-pantsed suits, you see what the boys were wearing. Male Mods wore tailor made suits, thin ties,
and button-down collar shirts.
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