SenoritaHollywood Vintage

09/30/2024

A" Rock Hudson look a like" hired to model a leopard print shirt in Glasgow's Esquire Shirt Boutique,1958

05/04/2024

03/08/2024

Juli Lynn Charlot 1922 - 2024

Juli Lynne Charlot, born Shirley Agin in New York in 1922, grew up in Hollywood and was a singer with Xavier Cugat’s orchestra during the War before marrying.

In December 1947, she was invited to a Christmas party but had nothing suitable to wear. She also couldn’t sew - her mother had been a Jewish immigrant who sewed for a living “I didn’t want to be a drudge, like my mother,” Ms. Charlot said in a 1994 interview. She found a wide piece of felt and cut a circle, with a hole in the middle for her waist. She then decorated the front with appliques of Christmas trees for the holiday theme. The result was a long, full skirt in the New Look style popularized by Christian Dior earlier that year.

Her homemade skirt was a hit at the party and so she began to make similar skirts that she sold through a Beverly Hills boutique for around $35.00 each (the equivalent of about $400 today). One of her later designs featured a poodle, which leant its name to the generic style - ‘poodle skirt’ - as quintessentially a symbol of the 1950s as Rock and Roll and Hula Hoops.

01/15/2024

Women’s vintage redline selvedge , Made in USA 90s denim! 31” waist! On eBay now…
https://www.ebay.com/itm/116040497378?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=mQ6We7TPS2C&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=mQ6We7TPS2C&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

11/03/2023

The entire Etsy shop is on sale! https://skirtchaservintagela.etsy.com

10/27/2023

07/26/2023

The spirit of the 1960s is strong in this Rudi Gernreich design for Harmon Knitwear, 1967. Via Kent State University Museums.

07/26/2023

Heeled shoes were worn by men for centuries. This surprises many people.

https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/men-in-heels/

Hyacinthe Rigaud, Portrait of Louis XIV of France, 1701, Louvre, Paris, France.