Vintage and dance are two of my great loves and today's post combines them.
Here are some vintage dance illustrations to inspire you:
Here are some vintage dance illustrations to inspire you:
Love that ethereal font and the delicacy of the illustration by Mesples.
Dancing for a good cause at Roosevelt's fundraising ball. The first ball raised over a million dollars and they continued from strength to strength to fund research which lead to the vaccination of polio.
An energetic display on the cover of Johnson's sheet music from 1915. Doesn't he look like a dashing villain!
The perky Alice White appears as showgirl "Dizzy Dixie", a Broadway actress making her way in Hollywood. A Vitaphone production with early use of technicolour scenes.
The first fully technicolour musical and an early Rita Hayworth film. This illustration wouldn't look out of place as the cover of a raunchy romance novel!
No collection of vintage posters would be complete without one from Toulouse-Lautrec. Love the simplicity of shape and line, but something about those feet doesn't look quite right!
Dudley Hardy's 1893 poster on a 1970s advertising mirror. This one's available in my Etsy shop ;-)
All images, apart from the last, are from Wikimedia Commons and are believed to be in the public domain.
Continuing the theme of vintage and dance, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's Cambridge Retro Disco, a fundrasier for the Folk Museum. If you're quick you might be able to snap up the last tickets. Question is do I go for 80s sequins, 70s angel sleeves or psychedelic disco top and flares?!
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