One aspiring pin up model’s journey to acclaim.Tumblr (3.0; @talesfromthevanity)http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3600ca33fafd3323c3bd2a2ba3bb58c1/tumblr_miwhndxyo61qearaqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://awesomepeoplehangingouttogether.tumblr.com/post/44463965953/eartha-kitt-and-marilyn-monroe">awesomepeoplehangingouttogether</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Eartha Kitt and Marilyn Monroe</p> </blockquote>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/45988155065http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/45988155065Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:10:44 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8gg2nJczW1qi6n8yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lascasartoris.tumblr.com/post/29002997785/chinese-american-performer-jadin-wong-more">lascasartoris</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Chinese American performer Jadin Wong</p> <p>more information about her <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jadin-Wong-pioneering-Asian-performer-dies-3264648.php#ixzz0njETTsgH">here</a></p> <p><em>(source: <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Jadin-Wong-pioneering-Asian-performer-dies-3264648.php#ixzz0njETTsgH">San Francisco Chronicle</a>)</em></p> </blockquote>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/42100394475http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/42100394475Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:33:59 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/edc7b75d5b0d15ca7bf5f850a9caa6e8/tumblr_mhid46vWQT1rywy5mo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thelingerieaddict.tumblr.com/post/41969141816/all-the-sheer-things-give-me-them" class="tumblr_blog">thelingerieaddict</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>All the sheer things. Give me them.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://sonatalingerie.tumblr.com/post/41966108194/ravenna-playsuit-this-gorgeous-and-delicate-black">sonatalingerie</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Ravenna <img alt="Ravenna Playsuit (back)" src="https://sonata-lingerie.com/shop/belle-epoque-collection/ravenna/ravenna-playsuit.php"/>Playsuit</strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This gorgeous and delicate black silk chiffon playsuit is made from 100% pure silk chiffon. With straps and trim in matching silk it is also smothered in ruby Swarovski crystals. Elegant and striking this beautiful piece is floaty and romantic with a real hint of passion.</p> </blockquote></blockquote> <p>Beautiful!</p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/42100340237http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/42100340237Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:32:53 -0600<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m339utbKb21qbz9meo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://dottiesdelights.tumblr.com/post/21882986765/most-people-in-my-world-know-who-gypsy-rose-lee" class="tumblr_blog">dottiesdelights</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Most people in my world know who Gypsy Rose Lee is, but then I live in a bit of fantasy, I suppose.  This is a great article.</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://life.tumblr.com/post/21850726824/ask-anyone-today-under-the-age-of-say-40-who">life</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><strong>Ask anyone today under the age of, say, 40, “Who was Gypsy Rose Lee?” and chances are pretty good that the reaction will be utter bewilderment. “Gypsy Rose <em>who</em>?”</strong><span><br/><br/></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Largely forgotten today, Gypsy Rose Lee (born Ellen June Hovick in Seattle in 1911), was — and remains — a force in American popular culture not because she acted in films (although she did act in films) or because she wrote successful mystery novels (although she did write successful mystery novels). The reason Gypsy Rose Lee’s influence endures can be attributed to two central elements of her remarkable, all-American life story: first, her 1957 memoir, <em>Gypsy</em>, which formed the basis for what more than a few critics laud as the greatest of all American musicals, the 1959 Styne-Sondheim-Laurents masterpiece, <em>Gypsy: A Musical Fable</em>; and second, her career in burlesque, when she became the most famous — and perhaps the most singularly likable — stripper in the world.<span><br/></span></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">On the anniversary of her death at the too-young age of 59, LIFE celebrates the young entertainer’s life with <strong><a href="http://ti.me/I7rIzo%20">a selection of photos</a></strong> from Memphis in 1949.</span></p> </blockquote></blockquote> <p>Who doesn’t like Gypsy Rose lee who knows of her work?</p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/42100050418http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/42100050418Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:27:01 -0600<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc8bqoyVbd1qzdzbuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://theniftyfifties.tumblr.com/post/34307225897/books-film-music-internet-designer-fashion-clothes-shopp" class="tumblr_blog">theniftyfifties</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Anne St Marie in fashion for Ladies’ Home Journal, February 1958.</p></blockquote>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/34572541983http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/34572541983Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:00:36 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma24v6GbTA1qf826yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://theniftyfifties.tumblr.com/post/31263084134/clothes-sale-internet-beauty-cosmetics-anti-aging-jewelr">theniftyfifties</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Dana Wynter in ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’, 1956.</p> </blockquote>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/32057657512http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/32057657512Sat, 22 Sep 2012 11:58:48 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9a960Q9WS1rsr11fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://hourglass-silhouette.tumblr.com/post/30340641107/model-iren-mirror-corset-bibian-blue-photo">hourglass-silhouette</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Model: Iren Mirror<br/>Corset: Bibian Blue<br/>Photo: Phantom Orchid</p> </blockquote>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31990243658http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31990243658Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:57:11 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5hgzqal8X1qd48zdo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Contagious laughter  :-)</p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31927322304http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31927322304Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:55:04 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m51fxe0QC41r2igvjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31865851404http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31865851404Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:56:51 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4him2iW1B1r4uhhfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Jawbreaker” by ‘RENATA KAVEH’ published by GLASSbook</p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31801712182http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31801712182Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:00:47 -0500pink<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5e37fJl3y1qzdzbuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>Photo by Regina Relang, 1950s.</p> <p>Stunning picture. Beautiful hat.</p> </blockquote>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31735821005http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31735821005Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:59:27 -05001950shat<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m801q1H7v61qd48zdo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><small>Josephine Baker, 1920s</small></p> <p><small>I cannot help, but repost pictures of Josephine Baker. It would be a shame not to share her beauty with the world.</small></p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31666657549http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31666657549Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:55:49 -0500Josephine Baker1920s<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ho8oSlZi1qas7f1o1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ho8oSlZi1qas7f1o2_r1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ho8oSlZi1qas7f1o3_r3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ho8oSlZi1qas7f1o4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><small>Lucille Ball in Dance, Girl, Dance  1940</small></p> </blockquote> <p>Lucille Ball. Beauty and brains all in one amazing, fireball of a package.</p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31595280866http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31595280866Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:00:19 -0500Lucille Ball1940s<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1b6ebV8pe1rod9g8o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is my truth for sure. I look how I choose to look. Who are you to judge me?</p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31528451465http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31528451465Fri, 14 Sep 2012 11:59:57 -0500Beauty inside and outsubmission<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9lqllVHKv1qhigt0o1_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9lqllVHKv1qhigt0o2_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9lqllVHKv1qhigt0o3_500.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>The cartoon pin up queen in my mind will always be Jessica Rabbit. </p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31467121621http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31467121621Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:58:40 -0500Jessica RabbitWho Framed Roger Rabbit<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9l3e1isq61r4y9ogo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This Belle dress is amazing! I would love to have this drress. Where I would wear it to I do not know, but I would find some where to wear it to.</p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31405205205http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31405205205Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:59:02 -0500Belle<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9jxts4nQZ1ql2tteo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><small>Josephine Baker Day, photographed by Eve Arnold in 1950</small></p> </blockquote> <p><br/>A true queen. She was truly a regal woman. I would love to take a picture like this one day.</p>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31341254157http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/31341254157Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:55:41 -0500Josephine Baker<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uuy75DNQ1qcpno5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://theniftyfifties.tumblr.com/post/24314642055/travel-hotel-games-internet-clothes-shopping-accessories" class="tumblr_blog">theniftyfifties</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Jayne Mansfield</p></blockquote>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/24680583419http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/24680583419Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:01:32 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m50um7kfY41qzdzbuo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://theniftyfifties.tumblr.com/post/24338986668/books-photography-designer-fashion-clothes-internet-shop" class="tumblr_blog">theniftyfifties</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Dorothy Dandridge</p></blockquote>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/24540591465http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/24540591465Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:59:01 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4aubaOvYI1qzhnmco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/24016074144http://talesfromthevanity.tumblr.com/post/24016074144Tue, 29 May 2012 15:56:12 -0500