In the last two posts we looked at vintage fashion, let's continue the thread with this image, a still for the 1932 film "Letty Lynton", directed by Clarence Brown and based on the eponymous novel by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes.
Though the film became more famous for a white cotton organdy gown with ruffled sleeves that was copied for decades by different designers, this image also features a rather striking design.
In the picture Joan Crawford, who played Letty, looks divine in an Adrian gown and embodies 1930s glamour as she stands in front of a revolving doorway in the Art Deco style (part of the set of another film, "Grand Hotel"). The bicoloured gown was made of white crepe and decorated with black bugle beads. A minimalist motif formed a wrap tied around the hips that created a symmetry with the colours of the bodice knotted around the neck. Crawford seems to have a pensive expression maybe linked to the pains, dilemmas and struggles her character Letty goes through in the film, while the two shades employed for the gown may be a hint at the duplicity in the life of Letty, who runs away from Emile and falls in love with Jerry, but, from innocent, ends up becoming the accidental murderess of her former lover.
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