#Shirley Temple

[citizenscreen]

Shirley Temple was born on April 23, 1928 #botd

#shirley temple

[cinematicfinatic]

Shirley Temple and Cary Grant .... The Bachelor And The Bobby-Soxer

#Shirley Temple #cary grant #the bachelor and the bobby soxer #classic movies #classic hollywood

[skwtches]

been meaning to draw the Bill Baird marionette of Tigger used in Shirley Temple’s Storybook: Winnie-the-Pooh (1960) for a bit now, so here it is as my first piece of the year 🧡

#winnie the pooh #tigger #bill baird #marionette #shirley temple #shirley temple’s storybook #vintage #60s media #1960s #puppets #puppetry #fanart #digital art #skwtch art

[shiftythrifting]

no i didn't edit images, they just looked like that on the listing

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #Shirley is having a very bad hair day. #also hello why is it 'flirty eyed' this is a doll of a literal child godgd #dolls #shirley temple #shiftylisting #possible scp

[rainedragon]

I'm kind of confused about the history of ETC, Did it basically start out as a offshoot of Shirley Temple cute in larger sizes for older kids/teens?

Shirley Temple started out as a kid's brand in 1974. They have had a bunch of sublines, but the important ones here are Emily Temple and Emily Temple Cute. Emily Temple was launched as a juniors (older kid's / tweens line) in 1983 and they produced children's size 150 & 160. In the US, this is like how we have the 14 & 16 size in little girl's clothing which can still fit teens and petite adults. Emily Temple 150 and 160 sizing tends to be shorter and more boxy.

Emily Temple 2001

In 1999 they launched Emily Temple Cute which was an adult's line. This was likely either aimed at young people who grew up wearing Shirley Temple and were sad they were sizing out of it, or the mom's of the kids wearing Shirley Temple so they could match, it's not super clear.

Emily Temple Cute in Kera 2002 Emily Temple and Emily Temple Cute were both in production at the same time from 1999-2001. Around this time both also would use Shirley Temple custom textiles.

Emily Temple in 1999

Shirley Temple in 1999 with the same print Around 2002, Shirley Temple restructured their sublines and dropped Emily Temple. They still made some size 150-160 stuff, but they color coded their stuff by how formal / casual it was instead. Their blue line which made things that looked more like formal wear still made 150-160 size items most seasons, but it was less common from their red and pink casual lines.

Emily Temple Cute made casual and more formal pieces, and continued to do so until 2012.

Emily Temple Cute, Kera 2003 In 2012 / 2013, Shirley Temple was doing really badly. They closed a bunch of stores, filed for bankruptcy and in 2012 Emily Temple Cute became Emily Temple Co., Ltd. and no longer was part of Shirley Temple. After that point, the two are separate businesses. The new Emily Temple Cute launches an online store in 2013 and becomes much easier to buy overseas at this point.

Emily Temple Cute Webshop 2013

In 2017, Shirley Temple launched Shirley Temple for Ladies, which is another adult's brand. ST for Ladies is much more "grown up" than ETC, with more toned down motifs.

Shirley Temple for Ladies 2022-2023 Shirley Temple Sister, which exists today, is their current size 150 & 160 brand. However, the current models for the brand are quite young.

The middle model is a model for their toddler (children's) line, while the left and right models are modeling their sister (tween) line, I believe.

Emily Temple and Shirley Temple Sister are both shorter and more boxy shaped than Emily Temple Cute and Shirley Temple for Ladies. tl;dr version - Yes, Emily Temple Cute is an adult's brand that is an offshoot of Shirley Temple, the children's brand.

#Emily Temple Cute #Shirley Temple #Lolita History #Otome #Emily Temple #ETC #old school lolita

[animatejournal]

Cats Don't Dance Director: Mark Dindal Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1997

#Cats Don't Dance #Warner Bros. #Cats of Tumblr #Villain Song #Shirley Temple #Animation #Musical #Hollywood

[newwavesylviaplath]

#sorry ive been starving you guys recently #girlblogging #coquette #hyper feminine #tumblr girlies #2014 tumblr #this is a girlblog #lana del rey #cinnamon girl #lizzy grant #girl interrupted #born to die #btd summer #summer #shirley temple #cherries #coca cola #vintage americana #vintage #americana #gingham #honeymoon #50s diner #50s #60s #elvis presley #marilyn monroe #lolita1962 #lolita1997 #nymph3t

[lolitaprints]

(source: Closet Child)

#emily temple cute #shirley temple #lolita prints

[vintage-every-day]

Shirley Temple (April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, and dancer who was Hollywood’s number one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938.

#vintage #old hollywood #golden era #shirley temple

[citizenscreen]

It was her mother, Gertrude Temple, who recognized Shirley's talent for entertainment. She enrolled Shirley in dance classes at the age of 3 and a half years old.

#shirley temple #old hollywood

[cinematicfinatic]

#shirley temple #classic movies #classic hollywood

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel, 1935.

#shirley temple #1930s #antique #costume #child actress

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was Zendaya and I was at some event or awards ceremony dinner. Timothée Chalamet was also there and we went and got Shirley Temples from the bar.

#dream #text #June 28th 2023 #zendaya #dinner #Timothée Chalamet #shirley temple #cocktail #awards ceremony #event

[mygreatadventurehasbegun]

“Woman?  Is that meant to insult me?”

Happy International Women’s Day.

 To all of us.

#international women's day #everything everywhere all at once #hamilton #olivia de havilland #judy garland #actresses #julie andrews #black panther #shirley temple #Ingrid Bergman #penny dreadful #marilyn monroe #firefly #serenity #audrey hepburn #tick tick boom #mj rodriguez #star wars #leia organa #brienne of tarth

[rainedragon]

Mini Lolita Fashion History Lesson: MILK

Today, MILK is generally known as an 'otome' or 'girly' brand, and many of their modern items don't look like what modern lolita think of as lolita.

A recent MILK collection However, in the late 80s and early 90s, MILK was considered to be one of the quintessential Lolita brands.

1990s lolita wearing MILK In a 1994 zipper interview about the history of lolita fashion the brand representative for MILK states "I think what is now called lolita fashion is the fashion that milk has been making for a long time."

MILK was founded in 1970 by Hitomi Okawa (大川ひとみ). When Hitomi Okawa started as a designer there were not many DC brands yet and ready to wear fashion was really just starting to become more widespread in Japan. Okawa attended an art university in Kyoto because of a love of drawing that started in elementary school. She used to draw illustrations of girls and make things like paper dolls. At the age of 11, she drew many pictures of the same clothes and changed the patterns (polka dots, checks, flowers). She grew up the daughter of a doctor, in an affluent home where her mother would read magazines like Harper's Bazaar with 1950s and 1960s American fashion. She also looked at American fashion catalogs as a child, and cites this study of clothing in magazines and catalogs as her earliest sort of "studying" of fashion. 

50s/60s Harper's Bazaar In addition to drawing inspiration from the 50s & 60s Harper's Bazaar & American clothing catalogs, she also drew inspiration from military uniforms and how they have custom buttons and custom fabric and details like that, as well as current trends in London and Tokyo as the brand continued to develop. When she started however, she says that she was the only one making this sort of cute girly clothing in Japan and she felt like she had to make it because no one else was making what she wanted to wear.

50s/60s Harper's Bazaar

After graduating from Seian College of Art and Design, Department of Design, she started MILK in Harajuku. She wanted to start in the coolest place possible, so she decided on Central Apartment.

MILK Shop Front in the 70s, Central Apartment

She had come to Harajuku when she was either in High School or her first year of University and had stood in the middle of the pedestrian bridge right off Harajuku station, and she looked down at Omotesando and thought "Here is the coolest place, I want to be here!", and that's why she chose that location. The Bridge doesn't exist any more, it was torn down in 2011. She wasn't aware at the time that Central Apartment was a popular place for creators, she just thought that street was nice and that Central Apartment was modern and cool. In a 2021 interview she confessed that she sometimes still goes up to the pedestrian bridge on the Yoyogi Park side and looks at Omotesando, and when she does, she feels the same way she did when she was 20 years old.

Central Apartment (原宿セントラルアパート) was initially an apartment complex built in Harajuku in 1958 at the intersection of Meiji-dori. It was initially built for special international travelers like US military personnel. In the mid 1960s/early 1970s, the lower floors were converted into stores with offices in the upper apartment floors.

The Coffee shop Leon on the first floor was a popular spot with creative people. There were also shops like Mademoiselle Nonnon launched by designer Taro Aramaki which sold French style clothing and lots of horizontal stripes. Mademoiselle Nonnon is considered to be the source of the border (horizontal stripe) trend in Japan.

Initially, "MILK", was expensive and unrealistic for everyday wear, so it was mainly used as a stage costume for idols, however, people started wearing Milk as everyday clothing as time went on.

MILK also experimented with a Bridal line in the 70s as well.

While their runway looks were generally a bit more loud than the way the pieces would have been worn in real life, you can see some prairie revival influence their early 70s items as well as some silhouettes in the '76 collection that are starting to look more lolita-esque.

Here are a few runway examples from the 1980s, note the border print of a carousel in the 1988 collection and the knee length ruffled skirt in the 1982 one.

By the early 1990s, MILK was heavily featured in coordinates worn by young women who considered themselves lolita in magazines like Cutie and Zipper, and was also advertising in those magazines.

1990-1992 Cutie advertisements for MILK

Early 1990s looks from MILK were fairly consistent with what was on offer from similar shops like PRETTY and Shirley Temple.

MILK Coordinates from Nene magazine, 1995

Speaking of Shirley Temple, the founder of Shirley Temple, Rei Yanagawa (柳川れい), worked as a designer for MILK before starting the Shirley Temple children's brand in 1974.

As time went on, lolita fashion started to diverge from the MILK style, while MILK followed their own design concept and look more at current trends in girly fashion. Today, some iconic MILK items like their heart purse are still frequently used in lolita fashion, however, it would be difficult to walk into MILK today and put together a coordinate that would read the same as one made from items at Angelic Pretty.

While goth and punk brands typically have no issue relating themselves to goth or punk fashion, brands popular with lolita have sometimes resisted self-describing themselves as lolita, most likely in an attempt to not alienate non lolita customers, due to lolita fashion having a mixed reputation. MILK, like many other Japanese brands, especially DC brands, maintains that they make MILK style, even though their influence on what we call lolita fashion today, is unmistakable.

Past Posts: Olive Girls

#MILK #Old School Lolita #Lolita Fashion History #Shirley Temple #90s Jfashion #80s Jfashion #70s Jfashion #Lolita History #Central Apartment #Hitomi Okawa #Mini Lolita History Lesson

[boydswan]

Gary Cooper & Shirley Temple in

NOW AND FOREVER (1934)

#gary cooper #shirley temple #now and forever #now and forever 1934 #classicfilmsource #mine #henry hathaway #here am I queue me