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Hollywood, California c. 1933 CB3310 Costume Pasties-style soutien-gorge and skirt. Cape, heels, anklets. TML. Actions A radiant and leggy Clara Bow partly covers herself with a cape (1). She squints and looks into the audience (2). The costume seems to consists of some sort of oversize pasty bra, along with a skirt overtop panty briefs (3). A side view (4). Commentary This dance costume is trend-sentting in the early 1930s, with its combination of appraently strapless sideless coupled with a bare midriff and bare legs protrouding from a panty brief. And who better to wear it than the It Girl, one of those flappers who earns her own moniker. Like many stars, Bow dons minimal dance clothes, not just here, but before in Three Weekends (CB2882). Source Publicity still from Hoop-La, Fox, 1933. #.10 from Daniel Blum, A Pictorial History of the Talkies, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1958, p. 64. #.20 from robbscelebs.co.uk. Other sources incude acephotos.org, clarabow.net, AliceJapan and star1950 at flickr.com. AliceJapan credits Eugene Robert Richee as the photographer. 4 pictures. |
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