May 17, 2015

Flickr Favourites: May 17, 2015



{WW2 ... "Lend a Hand!" ~ James Vaughan}



{Blue Telephone Woman ~ Salty Cotton}



{Lauren 2011 ~ Bliss Braoudakis}



{Cute and stripey ~ James Vaughan}



{The 1950s-blue blouson jacket ~ April-Mo}



{Eye on Cat Toy ~ http://bit.ly/1GM6Pfx}



{1940s or 1950s handsome guy with great car ~ Sundogrr}



{Advance 2315 ~ Sandra Perkins}



{Apricot morning ~ Julia Khusainova}



{June, 1932 Ladies' Home Journal ~ Genibee}
 





{All images above are from Flickr. To learn more about a specific image, please click on its title to be taken to its respective Flickr page.} 

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Though I dubbed brown my colour of the year for 2015, and it certainly is, if it had a running mate, that title would most definitely go to blue. Specifically light/baby and sky blue. Long (okay, at least a little while :)) before they became hot hues of the moment (in no small part due to Pantone's vote of approval this season), they enraptured me with their playful elegance and feel-good lightness of being during the dark, snow capped days of winter.

By spring proper, it really was the main colour that I was thinking about. Though I don't own a lot in my wardrobe (a slightly-too-large 1950s wiggle skirt and a vintage appropriate modern cardigan are the biggies), I'm striving to find more pieces this year and beyond in this classic, upbeat shade. I love that it works wonders all spring and summer long. If one desires, it can come out to play amongst some of fall's darker hues, such as cocoa brown and stormy sky grey, as well, and naturally works a treat (to borrow one of my favourite British terms) in the chilly days of winter, where it is often partnered with white and used to represent snow, ice and the very nippy temperature itself.

To help inspire me on my quest for more baby blue, I wanted to shine the spotlight on it in this month's edition of Flickr Favourites, along with some of the other shades that it plays so wonderfully with.

Colours may come and go in vogue, but they virtually never vanish entirely. They're always around us in one capacity or another, and light blue is certainly no exception. It can be the sky we gaze upon, the hue used to celebrate the birth of a baby boy, the shade that water is depicted as in countless works of art, the tinge an iceberg takes on when floating in the bone chillingly cold sea, the colour of an Easter egg, and scores of other elements of our world, each beautiful and timeless unto itself.

I love soft blue and have no doubt that my renewed passion for it will turn into a longstanding romance of sartorial sort in large measure, but certainly in general as well. Were the springtime breeze a hue, I can't help but feel like it would be baby blue and so with that thought in mind, I'm heading outdoors today to soak up the gloriousness of mid-May, bop around town, and who knows, perhaps even chance upon a sky toned treasure in the process.

Have a beautiful and thoroughly happy Sunday, my lovely friends!

17 comments:

  1. Baby Blue is a gorgeous colour, I don't think I own anything that colour, now that I think about it. It really would add some lovely accents to any vintage wardrobe-good luck in your search! x

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  2. Seeing these reminds me of the old fashioned name for that color: Robin's Egg blue, which says "Spring" to me. My inner teen loves the blue phone, but the early 30's bride is stunning too! Thanks for the sharing this visual bouquet!

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    1. That's a colour name that was still in use fairly frequently when I was a youngster, but I haven't seen it on much in recent years. I think it's long overdue for a comeback, don't you?

      It's my pleasure, dear Jen. Thank you very much in turn for your wonderfully nice comment. I hope that this spring is going marvelously for you!

      ♥ Jessica

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  3. fabulous images!!!!
    i´m curious if some really did spend the holidays with helping out at farms????
    greetings to you and a wonderful week!!
    xxxxxx

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    1. Hi sweet Beate, thank you for your lovely comment and question. During WW2, some folks in the UK definitely did go on working farm holidays like this (and there were also more long term initiatives like the Woman's Land Army to help on that front), but I don't know any hard and fast stats on just how many volunteered in this capacity.

      Wishing you a beautiful week!
      ♥ Jessica

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  4. Gorgeous colour... I love everything in the aqua section!
    http://inkandlacedesigns.blogspot.com.au/

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  5. I absolutely adore baby blue and in fact there are both a Hell Bunny cardigan and leather jacket I'm eyeing up in precisely this shade. It's so perfectly spring-time and goes with so many colours - perfection! I am in love with that Coca Cola advert above, I want it on my wall!! I don't think there's much that makes me think of summer like Coke and ponytails... xx

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    1. Very true! Coke and ponytails, swimsuits and sandy beaches are summer in a nutshell for me as well. I'd also add hot dogs and lemonade into the mix, too.

      Ooohh, which Hell Bunny cardi are you eyeing? I love their cardigans (and all of their products) so much and always have several HB offerings on my wishlist. The fact that they're a lot more affordable than many repro/vintage style brands means that I have a much better chance of actually purchasing them, so that just makes me adore the brand all the more.

      Thank you very much for your great comment, my dear. Have a splendid week!

      ♥ Jessica

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  6. This is a silly comment, but "Handsome guy with great car" is the best title for a picture. Also, now I want to make things with apricots... and I missed the farmers market yesterday!

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  7. Dearest Jessica, recently I have been searching for a light blue handbag and in that search I have been looking at so many shades of light blue. I have fallen in love with light blue, light teal blue and many other shades of blue with different undertones. I too have been searching for something for my wardrobe in a beautiful light and airy blue. Something about the gentle softness of light blue makes me feel I am one with Spring, one with the gentle breezes of the evening and the sounds of the frogs and other suck creatures, one with the flowers all a bloom and the beautiful blue skies above. I think dear that you and I both are feeling the same. So here's to gentle shades of light blue and to lovely Spring days. Gentle hugs, Beverly

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  8. I don't know if my previous comment went through or not, so please don't publish this one if it did!
    Baby blue is everything right now! I must confess, even thought I'm trying to cut back on my spending, I came across a pair of 70s style baby blue platforms and just could not pass them up. So I'm right there with you!
    I love that last image. The picture of the two women and the tagline about forbidden love immediately made me think there's a story in there about glamorous lesbians in the 1930s. I'm sure that's totally not true, but if that story exists somewhere, I want to read it!

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    1. Hi sweet gal, this is the only comment I see waiting from you, but if another does show up for this post, I won't publish it. Isn't baby blue sensational? I can hardly believe how much I'm in love with it this spring! Your new 70s style platforms sound stunning!!! To the best of my memory - and at the very least as an adult - I've never had baby blue shoes. I so want a pair, too.

      Doubtful (a love triangle involving two women and one man seems for likely for that era), but you never know. I haven't come across too much vintage lesbian/gay erotica online, but then again, I haven't really gone hunting for it. I just mean that I haven't encountered much (save for some photos) in the course of my daily online happenings. It was definitely around then and goes back for many, many centuries, though it usually had to be much more secretively hidden than nowadays.

      Thank you very much for your great comment. Have a beautiful week!
      ♥ Jessica

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  9. Lovely images. Particularly the bride
    Retro rover

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  10. I would have that 1959's blouson top! I really like the baby blue with the apricots, that is a colour combination I had not considered but really like. I hope you find some more pieces in this shade.

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    1. Thank you very much, dear Kate. Isn't that picture and colour combination marvelous? It really echos my most recent blog post, which saw royal blue and peach come out to play together. I'm digging that general pairing (blue + some form or light orange) so much this spring.

      Have a fantastic weekend - big hugs!
      ♥ Jessica

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  11. I also adore pastel blue, sky blue, pool blue and lavender blue, but unfortunately they don't become me so much as I would like them to. I think the colour I have most of in my huge nail polish collection is blue, although my favourite nail colour is green. :) I am behind with your blog since I had no time for reading it on our holiday to Crete and the network was really bad. I will also write you a longer mail one of the coming days, since I have a lot to tell and will thank you for your extremely generous and very lovely gifts. Have a nice day, dear. Here in Denmark the sun is shining but it is quite cold. :) XOXO

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    1. Please do, I'm eager to hear all about your exciting Greek adventures! I've always wanted to go to Greece, too, but in the last few years, I'd say it's jumped into being one of my top ten travel destination dream locations. Hopefully one day! :)

      Thank you so much for letting me know that your order reached you safe and sound (and quite quickly, too). That's terrific to hear! Enjoy everything and know that it comes wrapped with hugs from me over here on this side of the world.

      Wishing you a gorgeous, relaxing Sunday,
      ♥ Jessica

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