Thursday, December 14, 2017

Channeling Greta Garbo (as a six-year-old)

This is one of the first images that shows up when I do a Google search for "1920s straight line dress actress":
img source: https://vintagedancer.com/1920s/what-to-wear-roaring-twenties/

This is Greta Garbo:
img source: https://waveparade.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/greta-garbo-8.jpeg
And this is the illustration that accompanies a short story I found in my bedroom over Thanskgiving titled "Kaliphan, Goddess of Sparkles":

The story doesn't have a date on it, but it was sometime before I learned that "really" has an "a" in it but after I learned to draw elbows, so I estimate it's from the first grade.  The story itself is fine, as far as 142-word stories that leave an entire village starving and homeless but nevertheless end with "and no one was ever sad again" go....  But what I really got a kick out of was that Goddess Kaliphan is rocking some serious Greta Garbo style here.  She's got the angle, the posture, the popped knee, the dress, the major attitude....  All she's missing is a cigarette holder... which I think is clearly just out of frame.

Yep, six-year-old me was apparently well versed in styles and postures of 1920s Hollywood.

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