Fun, Frivolous and Fantastic

January celebrates the New Year with wonderfully fresh fashions at London’s Fashion Week. We are treated to fun, frivolous, fantastic creations to light up the darker days of winter. I like to compare some of the current designs to those eras I write about. From the early 1900’s to the 1960’s, the connections are quite amazing. In my last novel “A SISTER’S SHAME”, my twin heroines loved to dress-up, to be part of the fashion scene despite their abject poverty. One twin, Vesta, almost sold her soul to achieve her dream appearance. In 2013 it’s relatively easy to create a celebrity “look” – every magazine, reality TV show and celeb interview provide the inspiration for us to opt for retail therapy. Between the two world wars of 1914-18 and 1939-1945, there was a span of only twenty years. In those two decades, believe it or not, hedonism was at its height. Perhaps we women were making up for lost time – and trying to turn men’s heads, not towards conflict but to beauty and romance. Would history be re-written if women had been in charge? One of the most iconic beauties of the day was the German American actress and singer, Marlene Dietrich. She epitomized the divided nations yet her allure and mystery enticed both men and women to worship at her feet. What would have happened I wonder, if she had been a politician and not a movie star? Who knows! Perhaps you'd like to take a glance at two stunning pictures on my webpages that demonstrate the seemingly irrelevant matter of seventy-eight years, both in fashion and popular fiction! http://carolrivers.com/fun-frivolous-and-fantastic/





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