One step forward two steps back
Playboy After Dark is tres cool! I highly recommend this DVD set if you want a taste of the good life circa Camelot. The show's format is sweet and quite fresh and provides the viewer with unique interviews. I loved watching Lenny Bruce make lil quips to Nat King Cole and Rona Jaffe. In this new and modern world a big deal is made of any celebrity who says anything on the air inebriated. Compared to that era, we are total squaresville, eggheads, bores, L7.
Okay, I can't get enough of the cocktail dresses! Sketch pad out, all my retro patterns are out, it's sewing time, I have been inspired once more. Nothing beats a well tailored, strappy, lil number. It's all in the darts. Dig those cute pointy shoes! The men sport their sharp, close fitting suits-TRES DISTINGUE! How sloppy today's menswear has become. Nothing ruins the male silhouette more than any sort of slouch or wrinkle to his pants. Put today's man in those suits of the late 1950's and early 60's and you'll get a taller looking, streamlined dreamboat. All this bagginess is so unecessary. It's the style du jour to let the pants on suits sort of trail down to the shoes. Because I watch so much retro television when I do see a "modern day" tuxedo, they always look ill fitting or slightly over sized on the guy. I was reminded that this is because the style is no longer as close, tight, short fitting as they used to be. "Ah, noted". The tuxedo of today makes the guy look impish, I truly wish this style would really go retro. Zoot Suit is another thing, it's a Zoot Suit, I'm talking Men's Warehouse, en masse, burn those suits, start all over and bring back retro silhouettes.
The 1969 episodes were still swingin but ten years made a big difference, the party had moved to California. The women looked younger, perhaps the fashions or the fact they were in color. The men's suits started their metamorphis. So after getting a full dose of Hef and his guests all weekend ...it's evident that while we take steps forward, we have taken more than just a few steps back in many ways.
Okay, I can't get enough of the cocktail dresses! Sketch pad out, all my retro patterns are out, it's sewing time, I have been inspired once more. Nothing beats a well tailored, strappy, lil number. It's all in the darts. Dig those cute pointy shoes! The men sport their sharp, close fitting suits-TRES DISTINGUE! How sloppy today's menswear has become. Nothing ruins the male silhouette more than any sort of slouch or wrinkle to his pants. Put today's man in those suits of the late 1950's and early 60's and you'll get a taller looking, streamlined dreamboat. All this bagginess is so unecessary. It's the style du jour to let the pants on suits sort of trail down to the shoes. Because I watch so much retro television when I do see a "modern day" tuxedo, they always look ill fitting or slightly over sized on the guy. I was reminded that this is because the style is no longer as close, tight, short fitting as they used to be. "Ah, noted". The tuxedo of today makes the guy look impish, I truly wish this style would really go retro. Zoot Suit is another thing, it's a Zoot Suit, I'm talking Men's Warehouse, en masse, burn those suits, start all over and bring back retro silhouettes.
The 1969 episodes were still swingin but ten years made a big difference, the party had moved to California. The women looked younger, perhaps the fashions or the fact they were in color. The men's suits started their metamorphis. So after getting a full dose of Hef and his guests all weekend ...it's evident that while we take steps forward, we have taken more than just a few steps back in many ways.
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