SAY NO TO SANFORIZED

This is so cool.

1963 Sanforized magazine ad:"Beatniks are against all garments labeled "Sanforized" or "Sanforized-Plus". Naturally. These two labels destroy their whole image. You can't look "beat" and neat at the same time. "Sanforized" stops shrinkage-an old beatnik stand-by for appalling appearance. "Sanforized-Plus" fights wrinkles as well...and also assures long lasting fabric. "So, even after days of exposure to rain and folk music in the park, clothes with our labels hold stubbornly to their original size and smoothness..."

Source: An Ambitious Project Collapsing

GOODBYE BABY AND AMEN

This book captures my imagination. It was on my parent's bookshelves when I was young and I was transfixed by it. I loved the picture of Jeanne Moreau, the smoke curling into the dark background. Looking again, it's hard to find a picture that doesn't produce a strong emotion. I thought it had gone missing a year or so ago, and looked for a replacement, and the price was nudging $1000. I was pretty happy when it showed up.

The full title is Goodbye Baby and Amen: A Saraband for the Sixties. It's a photography book, with portraits by David Bailey and text by Peter Evans, but it's so much more than that. The words inside are spare and bewitching. The images are the same. It's divided into chapters such as Couples and The Look, and the portraits are of artists, musicians, actors and intellectuals, some who are still household names, and some who have faded from popular view a little; it's these perhaps that you want to discover more than those who still feel familiar. But the genius of the portraits is that no one feels familiar, even the Rolling Stones, and everyone looks absolutely young without the nostalgia, romantic without the sentimentality, that often accompanies 1960's photographs.

I've done my best, but I don't think these pictures really do it justice.

THE OUTSIDERS

I re-read The Outsiders at Christmas which made me want to find some pictures.

It was hard picking out the best ones/the ones where there wasn't something weird going on with Tom Cruise's lip.

I forgot how much the film was all about the denim. Each character has their own denim outfit, Ponyboy has the western denim jacket & jeans, Tom Cruise has that insane denim gilet & jeans, Patrick Swayze's in the chambray muscle shirt & jeans, and the leg lengths look super cool. The aesthetic of 1960's denim done in the 1980's is so great.

Stay gold, Pony.

I'm going to hunt out some denim gilet fashion images and see if I can put something together.

Pictures from The Outsiders:www.cthowell.net/The_Outsiders/the_outsiders.html, http://www.theoutsidersbookandmovie.com, http://groups.myspace.com/stayinggolden2