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Happy Birthday to Gypsy Rose Lee! ~ VFG Fashion Parade for the week of January 8th

Discussion in 'PUBLIC VFG Fashion Parades' started by carla rey, Jan 7, 2018.

  1. carla rey

    carla rey VFG Member

    Perhaps best known as the author of the memoir “Gypsy” on which the famous musical and film were later based, Gypsy Rose Lee was a self-created character and multi-talented woman: author (her memoir and 2 murder mystery novels), actress (vaudeville and Hollywood), playwright, and, perhaps most dramatically, striptease artist extraordinaire!

    She brought her trademark snappy patter and humor to the act of disrobing for an audience, and made it into a new art form. In an interview about her biography of Lee, author Karen Abbott described her act: “ ‘Oh, boys, I couldn't,’ she'd tease when the crowd would howl for more. ‘I'd catch cold.’ She took a full 15 minutes to peel off a single glove…Her great accomplishment…was the idea of blending sex and comedy…the overriding sense she left audiences with was that of a stripper who puts on more than she takes off — and uses her wit to entice people.”

    Join us this week in celebrating the birth of a Hollywood and burlesque icon, by sharing your most slinky, sexy clothing and lingerie from the 1930s to the 1960s—including sheer fabrics, fringes and feathers, and sparkling, stage-worthy sequins or beading--plus gloves, of course!
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    (large photo: Ralph Steiner. Gypsy Rose Lee and Her Girls 1944. Sam Wagstaff Collection.)
     
  2. Racked Vintage

    Racked Vintage Alumni VFG Past President

  3. vivavintageclothing

    vivavintageclothing VFG Member

  4. denisebrain

    denisebrain VFG Vice President Staff Member VFG Past President

  5. Alleycats

    Alleycats VFG Member

  6. Sideshow Sam

    Sideshow Sam Registered Guest

  7. poppysvintageclothing

    poppysvintageclothing VFG Board Member Staff Member VFG Past President

  8. poppysvintageclothing

    poppysvintageclothing VFG Board Member Staff Member VFG Past President

  9. Vintage Runway

    Vintage Runway VFG Member

  10. Robin of Frocksley

    Robin of Frocksley Registered Guest

    That ostrich feather capelet is fabulous!!!!!
     
  11. poppysvintageclothing

    poppysvintageclothing VFG Board Member Staff Member VFG Past President

  12. thespectrum

    thespectrum VFG Member Staff Member

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