1920s Vintage Illustrations & Adds

The second installment from my bunch of old women's magazines. This time it is the Roaring 20s just going on the 30s. From November 1929, it contains everything you want: passionate lovestories envoked from by-gone eras, menuettes scores, fashionably designs for the little ones and exotic reports from remote areas of the world. What is not to love?

The first two are from a short story set in the land of revolutions - Mexico!

The text reads: The young colonel bowed deep and kissed Juana's hand.

Oh, and how gorgeous is that dress with the 20s style mantilla?

 This is totally a Romeo & Juliet kind of story but with a happy ending, but here we meet the lovers in a moment of distress until he realizes how clever and cunning Juana has been all because of him!

 A little illustration to the menuette score which was set on the opposite page. Wouldn't you love such a pianoforte? I would definitely start up piano classes with this beauty.

 This one and the next is from a detective short story set on a cruise. How smart Mamie is in her green suit with a petite cloche.

 This one just cracks me up because of their very much questioning positions.. Love when people over-do things! Even in drawings..

 This is from a Persil add telling that this washing powder brand is so gentle that you can even use it for those delicate silk gowns which is all the fashionably lady wants to wear. AND WHO WOULDN'T WANT THAT CLOSET????

I am completely taken by this image, and in the magazine it is just about 3x3cm. Stunning details, even blown up like this with the scan.

I become more and more happy with my purchase of these magazines, and wish even more that brands today would use illustrators instead of editing photos. I guess, it is quite a utopian dream. Too big business, I supppose.

Well, good thing these are still to be found around and about for us to enjoy.

Inspired by RUM Magazine may 2011

***How completely odd! I have just discovered that a post I did like two monts ago was never posted! Weird, have any of you experienced something like that? Anyways, I don't want you guys to miss it so here it is.

My my my!! the cover shot featured the living room of a Parisian (of course!) apartment and the colour scheme and the decor was so lovely and inspirational. I'm thinking about whether a three-coloured wall would work in my apartment - and I actually think it would!

This is it..

 Everything about it just speaks my name, even though I doubt the interior decorater who lives there is up for a swatch.. Its the perfect place for a Arne Jacobsen 'Swan' sofa and the beautiful floor just screams at me (I'm the daughter of a carpenter, what can I do?).

But the walls!! The black, the pink, the white AND the neon yellow stripe that you almost can't see in these photos - love love love..

And of course that set my mind fluttering around pastel hues and bold blacks. Take a look..

 Image sources: RUM Paris in Pink Foxtail and Fern Lovely Bride Making Magique IKEA Livet Hemma ModeAvenueParis

Sonnet Sunday: Sonnet V

So the beautiful sonnet and the picture have nothing whatsoever in common other than they are both beautiful. I just thought the opposite page seemed so bare when I had done the little vignette, and my orchid 'Betty' {yes, I name my flowers. I truly believe that's why they haven't died from me yet} was soon loosing all of her flowers so I decided to pick one before it started to go brown.

This is my last day of summer, tomorrow I start classes yet again. Not that I mind really. The weather has been so bad this summer that I actually long for seing smiling faces and gorgeous books again. I'm quite excited and thankfully I'm starting to feel completely well again after almost a whole month's of illness. I feel sick of feeling sick! But tomorrow is another day, and who knows - maybe I'll wake up feeling like running to school! {probably not - and even if I did, I never would!} However, time will tell if I feel well enough to ride my bike or have to succomb to the public transportation. Given that I still shake a little of small fevers and dehydration I'd put my money on the busses.

But we'll see..

xoxo thedandelionchronicles



Weekly Favourites week 34

Weekly Favourites week 34, 2011 by maudline

REDValentino embroidered dress, $465 Stella McCartney skirt, $885 Clements Ribeiro skirt, $1,045 Acne shoes, $765 Victoria Beckham | Embellished stretch-crepe gown, $7,755 Stripe cowl dress [Som1733] - $79 : Pixie Market, Fashion-Super-Market, $79 Eugenia Kim | Foxy hand-knitted wool scarf | NET-A-PORTER.COM, £202 Prabal Gurung | Draped silk-faille dress | NET-A-PORTER.COM, £2,255 Clements Ribeiro Lace-print silk cocoon skirt, $1,045

I am head over heels with the Clements Riberio skirt! Such perfection of lilac and lace - pretty pretty pretty! Also, I adore the faux fox scarf {can you even use the term 'faux' to something that is knitted?} I find it utterly hilarious and a great way to be classic and geeky at the same time. Maybe I should try asking my friends who are great 'knitters' to create a pattern like this one. Or would that be too big a task? But it is such a creative idea - so props for that.

I hope you all have had a very nice summer, mine is now ending as I start classes on Monday again back at the English Institute at the University of Aarhus. I have missed the campus and the Nobel Park where English and the other language institues are. A bit fed up with art history - not the subject but the education and classes, so it will be a nice change of air. If only I had beaten my flu but alas! My immune system is probably non-existing due to this nightmare of an August. Stress and numbness have taken on a whole new meaning for me. Oh well, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, I guess. And I just have to catch up reading when I feel a bit better than at the moment.

Everything will be well. I know that. Maybe not tomorrow but at some point.

1950s Adds & Illustrations

Aren't these just darling? I love vintage magazine illustrations and adds, so much more elaborate and eye catching by their style and elegance.

These are from a bunch of old Danish magazines from the 1950s which I found at the flee market at Ingerslevs Blwd which I also mentioned here.

I bought twelve magazines so there will be tons of great pictures to come, and I am literally laughing my behind off when I read the articles of newbies in Hollywood - amoungst them is Paul Newman and he is said to be very promising! Ha! Hilarious..

Some of the illustrations are made by the very well known Danish illustrator Kurt Ard, and I adore his style. The detailing are amazing and I wish that covers would be illustrated in stead of bad photos photoshopped to inrecognision. Call me old-fashioned but I have always thought a good photographer should be able to take a photo only using lights as their props. Yes, I do like the vintage effects and curves you can get to photos, but it is the 'make-skinny-women-look-skinnier-thing' that I dislike. If we aspire to something which physically cannot be then why not use the very talented artists and illustrators who do better images of this anyways?

Oh well, now I turned into a biggering nag - not my intention, however, I hope you get my point.

But seriously, I would be BROKE if all magazines showed this much beauty and talent..

All images are my scans.

 

 From a MEDOVA tea add.

 From a PERSIL washing powder add {My grandmother still uses this brand!}

 Cover illustration by Kurt Ard of 'Kate - the dangerous woman in our new novel' for the weekly magazine Familie Journalen {which my grandparents still buy every week}

 Add for Colgate beauty cremes. I love the jars..

 The illustration to a short story about a young actress who is head over heels in love with a young man but she must choose between her carreer and her love! Oh horror, what is a girl to do?

 The first illustration to the novel which also feature Kate - the dangerous woman. Some of the highlighted text says that Werner promised Magda to send for her and the baby, but he never did! Oh, dear!! I bet Kate has something to do with this...

Add for Danish underwear brand Asani. They had the most delicate adds, and I have some of their slips and they are the best! I'm always on the lookout at secondhand shops in search of these. And seriously, wouldn't you like to have something in common with this girl!?

The logo text reads Asani - the underwear in the upperclass. This is a pun on the Danish world for 'upperclass' overklasse where over also means 'over' like in English. So clever, no?

Anyways, I hope you liked my first installment of 1950s adds and illustrations. There is much more to come..

XOXO, thedandelionchronicles

Weekly Favourites week 33



Weekly Favourites week 33 by maudline

Vionnet silk chiffon dress, $4,340 Roland Mouret silk dress, $2,835 Jonathan Saunders wool dress, $1,420 Holly Fulton print dress, £1,315 Alessandra Rich lace cocktail dress, $1,879 Fendi wool dress, $1,179 Mikael Aghal evening ball gown, $187 Moschino embellished dress, £473 Red Valentino embroidered dress, $895 Victoria Beckham v neck dress, $2,240 Moschino Cheap Chic deep v neck dress, $774 Lanvin long maxi skirt, $3,245 Lanvin evening dress shoes, $4,520 Yves Saint Laurent Opyum embellished suede pumps, £550 USLU AIRLINES Nail polish BBB "Bread & Butter", €11 mytheresa.com - Miu Miu - FLORAL PRINT SKIRT - Luxury Fashion for..., €625 Carven Tiered Silk Shirt - Start - farfetch.com, €344

Well well well... This week's Weekly Favourites just screams out luxury in my opinion. I must say that my heart seems to be topsy-turvy whenever I see something from Vionnet or Lanvin. However, my personal favourite this week is the Jonathan Saunders dress. It looks so effortlessly classy and has amazing up-to-date details like the pink.

It is nice to be back again even though it takes quite an amount of force to focus in this way, however, I do think it is neccessary in order to get on with my life.

{Just for the record, this blog is not going to be way too personal but I'll just post these hints once in a while because.. well.. to make myself see that things are just the same and ever-changing, if that makes any sense. But don't worry about this blog turning into a diary - it is not! My interests, mood and emotions are just very closely related so in order to make sense of why I think this or that is interesting, it may seem logic to post these kind of things. At least to myself}

*** On another note, do you guys prefer the Weekly Favourites with the list of items or without? I'm still undecided, but let me know if you think it 'blurs' the over-all look or makes a better post.

Danish Children Attire

Hi guys, I'm back again.. My world still feels like spinning and twisting, and trying to throw me off but I think it is time to slowly get back into gear again. Thanks for your patience during this little break and I hope that you will stick with me in the future despite irregular posts and whatnots.

It really makes me happy to see the very much increased traffic here on my blog and it definately makes me want to continue.

In Denmark, there's a huge business working around children's clothing and accessorice, and the Danish department store Magasin du Nord has created a lovely editorial in their latest free issue Magasin by M*agasin no 14 FW.

The fall and winter is (sadly) fast approaching and we have to get the closets ready for the littluns with nice comfy and warm clothes without going down on style. Even though we too like to dress our children very stylish-ly, I don't think that we over-do it and try to make them little grown-ups. I like when girls wear clothes which can we worn for play and not looking like porcelain dolls, and when boys are allowed to dress up if they feel like it. 

{One could make a comment on the controvercy about the 10-year-old French model, however, I don't really think this post would be the issue for that. The only thing I wish to state in this respect is that I am perplexed that people don't want to let children be children and give grown women a more accurate image to aspire to than a child}

Credits: I Play House

Photograph: Katrine Rohrberg

Styling: As Øland

Styling Assistant: Karoline Saysette

Regi: Sita Simonsen

Models: Malik, Kevin, Sarafina, and Mille / 1 Kid