THIS PHOTOSTREAM IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF DOVIMA

I got fed up with seeing women dressed as men all the time so I started this Photo stream as a tribute to the fifties straight skirt fashions, a skirt style very popular in the mid to late fifties and favoured by my school secretary, a delightful lady who often in the course of her work, would inadvertently demonstrated the shortcomings of this skirt style.

In compiling this collection, I was struck by the stunning beauty of one of the models, which later turned out to be Dovima. I realised then that I had a rare collection of Dovima images, taken in the early fifties when she first started in advertising. It was also pointed out to me by ‘myvintagevogue’ that I also had pictures of famous models, Jean Patchett and Suzy Parker.

Most of the images on my photo stream have been scanned from adverts in hard to find 55+-year-old magazines, a tenuous media which is now deteriorating rapidly and in danger of being lost forever.

As most of the women in my photo stream have now unfortunately died, I'm now on a mission to save and restore these images as far as I can back to the original photographs, and archive them digitally before they are lost forever.

I would also like to think that this Photo stream is a tribute to the beautiful models of the fifties, (Dovima, Jean Patchett, Suzy Parker, Barbara Goalen, Evelyn Tripp, to name but a few.) who were largely anonymous in their heyday, but who's beauty and elegance is only now being discovered by the present generation, thanks to the Internet.

Disclaimer: All photos unless otherwise indicated are not taken or owned by me. They are used solely for the purpose of discussion, education and historical purposes. These images are not intended for any commercial purpose. Please respect their copyright and do not use them for commercial purposes.

Pictures of Sarah Adams appear by kind permission of RoSa Shoes.

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