Every year dancers go to the Governor’s picnic, and to the Gatsby picnic, wearing late 20s/early 30s clobber and having a lovely time dancing to a live band, picnicing, chatting and so on. This year and last the Sartorialist took some lovely photos.
There’s also a story on Citizen Couture about one of the dancers. I like the pics, there, but it bothers me that he used staples to keep his vintage trousers’ hems up – the damage they’d have done to the fabric under those conditions!
Rick has also posted a story about the day.
I like the summer fashion of these events, and wish we had that sort of thing here. I can never decide what I’d wear, though. I like the light summer dresses of the period, but they do NOT suit my body shape. I do, however, also like the men’s fashions – straw boater’s, strongly coloured striped jackets, linen trousers, bow ties… It’s all good.
Garance Dore made a comment a little while ago about plus sized models being ‘unhealthy’. I can’t remember what happened with that story, but it caused a bit of a flurry. I liked the way it highlighted the hypocrisy of the Sartorialist’s commitment to ‘everyday’ fashion on ‘ordinary’ people but only shooting the same old body types.
