Music update: Interview & Charade track guide

I was recently interviewed by the wonderful Sean Hannam of Say it With Garage Flowers about my new record, Kickstarter campaigns and basically all things music related.  If you so choose, you can read that interview and a track by track guide to the record here: “I’m a late night, melancholy kind of girl” / MEG OLSEN

Enjoy as I yammer on and attempt to sound like I know what I'm talking about! (that's a laugh).  I hope you are very well! Back with a more fashion related fare soon.  xM

La Mystique Féminine

If you've spent much time here at DJRD then you've probably noticed that I am a sucker for vintage color photography and could spend hours (and probably have) scouring the archives of places like LIFE magazine.  Here is another batch reminiscent of the circus photos I posted many many moons ago. This time it’s New York showgirls from 1958 and they are so lovely they make me want to cry a little.    

                

It's interesting when you think about how taboo being a showgirl must have been, what with the conventional, almost virginal, 1950s ethos.  That said, this was the very tail-end of all of that and not many years later America would be in the thralls of an all out sexual revolution. Clearly, all was not as clean-cut as we have been lead to believe!   

                           

   

                          


I also can’t help but wonder... where on earth did all of these costumes go?!??!

photos from  
GORDON PARKS’ NIGHTCLUB PORTRAITS / Life Magazine 
“Without the Girls, Show Biz Is No Biz"