Having established that we’re more than a little partial here to retro in any number of its ubiquitous cultural manifestations (&, indeed, having already opened this year of blogging with a post featuring archive fashion illustrations), imagine the delight when a 1970s-published volume of fashion illustration came to my attention yesterday. Whilst being drawn in the then-contemporary style of the book’s day dates the appearance of the illustrations to a vary particular era, it lends to them a period charm that also invites appropriation: something suggests that the figures would hardly look out of place stylishly gracing the artwork of a release from the
Moon Wiring Club, for example, elegantly populating a Clinksell drawing room - very much a case of ‘shoes off & chairs away’ for the dancing couple, perfectly illustrating the concept.
Aren't they all such fabulous dandies?! Interesting too to observe such examples of drawing for a specific purpose, the conventions that such genres obey, & the admirable economy with which the results are achieved in the interests of effective communication.
