Ho, Ho, Hulett

Hulett was an artist and worked on some of my favorite classic Disney animated films including Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty among many others.

[caption id="attachment_3837" align="aligncenter" width="434"] Hulett at work at Disney Studios, circa 1940's
appears to be working on Lady and the Tramp[/caption]

Some sweet vintage holiday illustrations by Ralph Hulett to keep you merry and bright.

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[caption id="attachment_3825" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Vintage Ralph Hulett Christmas card © 1955 by the Estate Of Ralph Hulett[/caption]



[caption id="attachment_3835" align="aligncenter" width="497"] Ralph Hulett[/caption]

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Additional info on Ralph Hulett
California Painter Tony Peters Blog
Bodega Bay Heritage Gallery

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Vintage Wonder to you and yours!

Manic Mod-Day: Youthquake

One of the very best items I ever found was this 60's Emmanuelle Khanh for Youthquake silver lamé dress. I can still remember finding it in the children's clothing section of the Salvation Army about 8 years ago. It was in pristine condition! I sold it eBay shortly after and I've missed it ever since.

Youthquake was a 1960s fashion, musical and cultural movement. The term was coined by Vogue's editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland in 1963. London was the center of this movement. Teenagers dominated the fashion and music scene. The fashion of youthquake was fun, spirited and youthful – miniskirts and jumpsuits. Poster girls of the youthquakers such as Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy, Penelope Tree, Veruschka, and Edie Sedgwick were often on the cover of fashion magazines such as Vogue. Mary Quant and Betsey Johnson were named as some of the fashion designers at the helm of the youthquake movement. Andy Warhol and his muses were also seen as part of the youthquake movement. - via Wikipedia

Youthquake was also a clothing line that included talent from London such as Mary Quant and Emmanuelle Khahn (who designed my dress above), and creative young American designers like Betsey Johnson, Deanna Littell, and Joel Schumacher (yep the Hollywood director!). Youthquake was a division of Puritan Fashion owned by Carl Rosen that sold traditional dresses. The line sold in the undisputed house of mod, the Paraphernalia boutiques. Shops in London and New York opened by British entrepreneur Paul Young.

Betsey Johnson, a zany assistant in the art department of Mademoiselle—she had won the magazine’s Guest Editor contest for college students and was charming the staff with the little sweaters and T-shirt dresses she sewed at home. She was “young and kicky and with-it,” Mademoiselle’s Locke remembers. So when Young called looking for ideas, Locke didn’t hesitate to recommend her. Johnson still remembers her first meeting with Young: “I had all these crayon drawings, and I went to meet Paul and there he was, drawing with crayons.” She was hired on the spot. - via NY Magazine

[caption id="attachment_2173" align="aligncenter" width="440"] Yellow Gold YouthQuake by Michael Mott Dress $150.00 by The Roo Vintage[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2172" align="aligncenter" width="440"] Vintage 1960s Youthquake Knit Spaceage Knit Mini Dress $215.00 by Yum Yum Vintage[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2175" align="aligncenter" width="440"] Dress 1960s Vintage 60s YOUTHQUAKE Purple Metallic Mod Mini Dress - SOLD by BombshellShocked[/caption]

Vintage Videos: Futuristic Fashion Predictions

Futuristic fashion predictions from the 1930's of what we'd be wearing in 2000. I actually really love the jumpsuit and cantilever heels, those could easily be worn today. I bet that "electric belt to adapt the body to climatic changes" would sell like hotcakes to the menopause set. And don't we wish all men carried around "candy for cuties"?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1aNPPj6AAY]

Vintage Birthday: Butch Cassidy

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Lilliputia

The other day I made a Vintage Roadshow post titled Dreamland and it got me thinking about the actual Dreamland and a post I made over a year ago on my other blog. I'm re-posting here for my vintie friends.


From Time Out New York, the "It happened here" blurb talks about Lilliputia in Coney Island which apparently was "an experimental community of little people" that was part of Dreamland in the early 1900's. And at first it sounded quite darling.

Their city, in a area 80 x 175 feet, was built at half scale as a replica 15th century Nuremburg, Germany. Everything was built in proportional scale of the inhabitants, from the theater to the beach lifeguard towers and toilets in their homes. The midgets had their own parliament, their own Midget City Fire Department that responded hourly to a false alarm, and their own beach complete with midget lifeguards. There was also a "Midget Theater", circus arena, miniature livery stable with diminutive horses, bantam chickens, and midget Chinese laundrymen. To accentuate the "little people's size, a giant or two sometimes walked the area. During the park's off hours, the "little people" lead a typical mundane family life. From Jeffrey Stanton

You can even read about Queen Mab & Caspar Weis known as "the most famous midget couple in the world" and one time residents of the Coney Island Midget Village.

Charming, no? Until of course reading it was turned into a "hotbed of sexual anarchy" and "all kinds of promiscuity, homosexuality and nymphomania was encouraged". Um, do you think Thor would be interested in recreating that with their new vision of Coney Island?

Human beings from every part of the globe were brought to Dreamland and put on display. The park manager, Sam Gumpertz, acquired a dozen Somali warriors from French Equatorial Africa and an entire village of Eskimos. In 1905, he hustled 51 tribesmen from the Philippines past startled immigration officials. Gumpertz himself recruited all the citizens of Lilliputia, a half-scale European village which served as year-round home to 300 midgets. At Creation, visitors journeyed backward through 60 centuries of biblical history to the Divine Origin of all things. Next door, vast panoramic exhibits foreshadowed the End of the World and Hell. From Scenes of My Hometown

Hellgate, a boat ride through the caverns of hell, was the start of the Dreamland fire

How freaking cool was this place? With "vast panoramic exhibits foreshadowed the End of the World and Hell", an "entire village of Eskimos" and even "a display of baby incubators, where premature babies were cared for and exhibited"? Sigmund Freud, supposedly declared Coney Island the only part of America that interested him - and we know what a sick freak he was.

I have now spent pretty much my entire day reading about Lilliputia and I am officially adding Dreamland to my reading list.

Lucky Number 5

A pretty interesting article on Gabrielle Coco Chanel's superstitious ways!

Coco Chanel’s love affair with No. 5