deforest:

Jean Harlow models the latest in 1935 swimwear with a beautiful blue silk beach cape. This particular cape, with its “V-shaped scarf effect at the front,” was presented as a “second cousin” to the bandana.

Opening night of the Ringling Brothers circus at Madison Square Garden, on March 30, was a benefit for the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation. Among all the stars who turned out none was more visible or roaringly approved by the eighteen thousand spectators than Marilyn: in a little scenario designed by impresario Mike Todd (with Milton Green supervising), she made a grand entrance in a tight, sexy outfit of feathers and spangles, riding atop an elephant painted shocking pink. “It meant a lot to me because I’d never been to the circus as a kid,” she told the nation a week later.

-Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto

satnin:

He had a big birthday party for me, total surprise.  He actually said we were going to the movie and to get dressed up and we were gonna go and, all of a sudden, we came out here and there’s a room full of people and he had a big birthday party for me. —Priscilla Presley

Surprise birthday party for Priscilla, thrown by Elvis in what is now known as the Jungle Room, May 24, 1966.

Gene Tierney, circa 1940s.

thegildedrage:

Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson. Impeccably dressed.

snowce:

Pirkle Jones, Figures in the Rain, San Francisco, 1955

vintagegal:

Lingerie by Jacques Fath in L’Officiel, 1956 

vinceveretts:

Elvis in San Diego, CA. June 6th 1956.

vintagegal:

Elizabeth Taylor in a promotional photo for Giant (1956)