Oh We Can't Turn Back Time? That's Cool, I'll Spend The Rest Of My Life Wishing I Could Though

Buster Keaton ❥

"But how can you compare Harlow and Garbo, Swanson and Shearer, or Gable and Tracy with any luminary today? Maybe it's just an old timer's sentiment. But today's faces lack depth of feeling. Two world wars and many minor ones have almost changed the face of the globe itself. Why not our actors? As I watch on television many of the stars I once photographed, I look at them as one might old paintings. Some can't stand up to today's demanding audience; others will be as magnetic a hundred years from now. I am sure the Mona Lisa and the face of Greta Garbo will inspire and puzzle for all time." —Clarence Sinclair Bull, photographer

(From Hollywood in Kodachrome: 1940–1949 by David Wills and Stephen Schmidt, 2013)

1920s + dresses

Wenda Parkinson is modeling a suit by British designer Hardy Amies for British Vogue, 1951. Photo by Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) - Hyde Park Corner

Source: christie's.com

can you talk to me like you talk to your cat

Girls sent home from McKinley High School for wearing slacks and blue jeans, Chicago, 1946.

Tyrone Power, circa 1937

wait for it!

Harold Lloyd in The Flirt (1917)