Palm Springs P.S. I Love You-The VFG Fashion Parade for the week of July 13th

carla rey

carla rey

VFG Member
Palm Springs P.S. I Love You

Attracted to its year-round sunshine and relative seclusion, Palm Springs has been a playground for A-list celebrities since the 1930s. This once rustic outpost and hideaway experienced a post-war housing boom driven by Hollywood's elite, transforming it from a sleepy desert town into a mecca for experimental modernist design and architecture.

Claiming the world’s largest concentration of mid-century modern architecture, today, its premier event, Modernism Week, attracts over 100,000 visitors from around the globe to celebrate its uniquely modernist aesthetic and cultural offerings.

This week we have a vintage Palm Springs fling in mind as the VFG gets ready for some hot summer fun in our coolest retro resort wear.
 
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Bright Floral Scarf Hat
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1970s Colorful Turban Scarf
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Beige Gauze Drop Shoulder Dress
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Vtg Daisy Snood
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1950s sportswear set pattern - blouse, skirt, capri pants - Ringier g60203

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1950s sun dress with detachable capelet pattern Ringier g18836

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1960s pants, blouse and shift dress pattern Simplicity 6554

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1970s playsuit / jumpsuit and wrap skirt pattern Vogue 7812

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1980s Tiered Skirt Strapless Dress or Top Harem Pants and Bikini Pattern Simplicity 3687
 
Sunny, Montgomery Clift wore a Hawaiian shirt very similar to yours in From Here To Eternity!

Photos are clickable links.

On Etsy, a late 40s to early 50s largescale plaid sundress


A 60s cotton midriff top in psychedelic neon colors
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At magsrags.net, a very chic black cotton spaghetti strap sundress, New Old Stock


And a 50s vintage "cold shoulder" sundress in a geometric abstract print


And coming soon to VFG Shop on Facebook, this killer tiki print suit jacket by Sandwich Isles
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while looking for something COMPLETELY different, I ran across this story in Forbes titled "Living Like Sinatra: The Ultimate Rat Pack Weekend in Palm Springs" which reminded me of this parade, of course, so thought I'd share it here...his lead in hooked me:

"I was a pretty lucky kid. I remember growing up in the casino business where my father worked, and being surrounded by a lot of legendary people. From family gatherings with Frank Sinatra, to hanging out backstage with Sammy Davis Jr. at every one of his concerts, it was an exciting life for a freckled faced, innocent kid. I would come to meet the members of the Rat Pack purely by the company we kept. As a wide eyed teenager I got to know them fairly well; Dean Martin never really drank, Sammy Davis was more spiritual than you could imagine and Frank was always entertaining beautiful women."

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