inspiration Archives - Moonshine Hill

vintage photo booth.

April 8, 2013 moonshinehill Leave a Comment

I am a sucker for vintage photographs. While I am trawling flea-markets & antique stores, if there is a shoebox full of old photos you can bet your bottom dollar I will be distracted for a good while. I love the expressions, the poses, and, of course, the clothes. I especially love vintage photo booth photographs. There is something about this disposable, miniature medium that brings out the playfulness of the subject. So, instead of stately stiffness in the form of professionally sat portraits, you get grins and smirks and full-blown smiles. Here is a selection of vintage photo booth photographs I have come across on the internet lately, from various decades. Great inspiration for hairstyles & hat-wearing!

1920s, 1930s, 1940s, inspiration

1930s in the cold.

February 2, 2013 moonshinehill Leave a Comment

Even though it is currently in the 70s here in Texas, I am sure we will have another cold snap before winter is really truly over — I try not to make myself get my hopes up for Spring too early, because I am always disappointed. Here are some lovely vintage photographs from the 1930s of fashionable ladies keeping warm.

Some shop news! We now have a physical shop inside Spice Village in lovely Downtown Waco, TX. Come by and shop vintage!

1930s, inspiration

The TEXTRON Advertising Art of Charlotte J. Sternburg.

January 30, 2012 moonshinehill Leave a Comment

While doing research for this gorgeous 1940s TEXTRON Quilted Satin Bed Jacket, I came across the amazing surrealist paintings used in TEXTRON advertising in the 1940s. Created by the artist Charlotte J. Sternburg, these advertisements are gorgeously colored and whimsically surreal pieces of art! I would actually love to have several framed – wouldn’t it be amazing to own an original of the paintings? One can only dream.

(click on the image to view the source)

And here is the TEXTRON quilted 1940s bed jacket we have in the shop right now:

1940s, art, inspiration

nina leen.

January 24, 2012 moonshinehill Leave a Comment

One of the first female photographers to work regularly for LIFE Magazine, Nina Leen is best known for her photographs of animals. But the Google LIFE Archive has a wealth of photographs featuring women in the 1940s through 1950s that the accomplished photographer took for various projects. They range from wholesome, housewifely subjects of housework and shopping to more risqué tableaus of showgirls and teenagers. The photographs are valuable insights into the daily lives of a range of women — and the clothing is superb. Check out those leopard-print shoes in the last photo!

All photographs care of the Google LIFE Archive.

1940s, 1950s, inspiration

showgirls in florida.

January 22, 2012 moonshinehill 1 Comment

I came across these amazing photographs this morning via Casey’s blog – what an amazing find Johanna made! These pictures were taken in 1947 by the photographer Allan Grant, and that’s pretty much all we know. It’s obviously a troupe of showgirls traveling through Florida — check out the amazing Art Deco architecture…and the clothes! I die. I absolutely die.

(picture heavy post!)