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  • One in a melon

    One in a melon

    Ootd is this watermelon 🍉 print sarong dress. I have found a new love for this style; if you want to feel sexy, confident and bold 50’s style, then Sarong dresses are the ultimate dress for giving you that feeling.

    Staying true to the vintage sarong dresses, the colour of this dress is bold and bright. Decorated with watermelon 🍉 patterns.

    From Collectif Clothing

    I had the ideal watermelon 🍉 purse from Voodoo Vixen to pair with the dress

    The wiggle fit gives you maximum ‘va-va-voom’, highlighting your curves in all the right places.

    I accessories with these cat eyes sunglasses 🕶️ from eBay which gave the outfit a classic vintage feel.

    How you choose your accessories with this dress, can completely change the look. Here I added a black belt that I took from one of my vintage dresses which, cinches the waist, even more, paired with black mules to compliment. These mules were not that comfortable to walk in if I’m honest, but they looked good on.

    Here are the two ways I styled the dress Side by side. Based on the design; this dress does not need a belt to cinch the waist. The sarong style highlights your curves in all the right places. However, adding a belt does change up the look, especially if I added a black straw hat. I might do that the next time wear this dress🙃.

    How would you style this dress? “Belt or no belt that is the question.”

    Ootd Summer Dress.

    Check out my YouTube video if you want to see this dress in action 😊 Here

    Photo by @velvetkick aka Tony P Smith

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  • Femme Fatale

    Femme Fatale

    The femme Fatale archtype has her footprints all over cultural throughout history. From ancient mythology to today’s video games.

    The original film Noir version of the femme Fatale is socially relevant and easily identifiable even today and in early 1940s and 1950s heyday she reigned cinemas and introduced romantic paranoia from the men who were equally fascinated and scared by her. But how was she invented and where did she come from?

    Film Noire translate from French into ‘black film,- literally: Darkness is what is at the Art of this movie genre.

    The reality is harsh and industrial, yet aesthetically pleasing,thanks to its composition,architecture and costume design. In essence, a Film Noir is an artful exaggeration of the real-world post second world war, with an emphasis on the dark and brutal side humanity.

    The genre was officially without name until 1955,right about when it came to an end.French film critics had started to referring to this America style of cinema as “Film Noir” after Sërie Noir (the French term for detective novels) but also to highlight the lightning techniques used that contributed visually to the sinister and cynical storytelling employed by these movies.

    The implications of the word ‘fatale’strikes two important chords.firstly

    Her fatalness and deadly aura, but it also touches upon the fatalistic theory of things being related to fate and therefore inevitable.

    To this day, the Femme Fatale is a recognizable term, often used free from the Film Noir connitation. In modern culture such as fashion editorials and advertising she is portrayed as dark and mysterious- usually clad in black,wearing red lipstick. Today she represents more of a ‘free woman’than a actual lethal one.

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    Hat by Pyewaket Millinery

    Photographer by Belle Prive Photography

    Dare to be You.