Hair styles/ make up!

Here's a pretty useful blog about how to style your hair or what sort of make up to go for, I'll be emailing you all shortly on my ideas for your characters too!

Enjoy.

Click HERE.

Long Hair -> 1930's style!

A great video tutorial for those of us with long hair (which I think is the majority) - how to get a 1930's style :)

CLICK HERE

the music's good too!

S xxx

Video about Reno divorce history

Check out this great video of Reno's Divorce history

Female Country and Western

Patsy Montana- I want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-q-S36q4V4

More swing, big band and jazz

Glenn Miller -In the Mood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTZGlPwboP8

Benny Goodman-Sing, sing, sing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJ4dpNal_k

Jazz, Swing and Big Bands

Cab Calloway and the Cotton Club Orchestra- Minnie the Moocher (big band)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge5yeSgjg9g

Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra-Im in the mood for Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktaicuhKKKE

Jitterbug dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZtNUtIBGeI

Duke Ellington-That's Lindy Hop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqTmPivsRso

Popular Music of the 1930s

The Andrews Sisters- Nice Work if you can get it- 1938.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGlXlm8eYA

Fred Astaire- Puttin on the Ritz- 1930

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVLswVdStw&feature=related

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers-Cheek to Cheek

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A4-C-MK-Po

Bing Crosby- Let's Do it Let's fall in Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJu4LtybE8&feature=related

Billie Holliday- That's all I ask

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1vvzCrsMtw

Shirley Temple- On the Good Ship Lollipop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r4bbgv1If8

Musical Films

Porgy and Bess- Summertime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44waInkjgI

The Wizard of Oz- Somewhere Over the Rainbow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HRa4X07jdE

The Phantom Empire- Uncle Noah's Ark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOKv1306j5g

Folk Music

Woody Guthrie-This Land is Your Land
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxiMrvDbq3s

website about class i the 30s

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug02/newyorker/class.html

Society Girl

Really interesting article on how a 1930's woman would have spent her life preparing to become a wife. Very applicable to all the bridge players...and everyone in some way!

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Debutantes_aristocratic_society_upper-middle-class-tradition_pdf

Modern Parallel

I started to think about public affairs in modern day where the woman has taken back her cheating husband and the power of that decision to forgive and accept his betrayal.

I've looked into the Monica Lewinsky scandal with Hilary Clinton sticking by Bill Clinton despite him first lying about the affair and then eventually publicly humiliating her, yet her remaining loyal to their marriage. Like Mary, Hillary refused to believe that Bill didn't love her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7QCI1TwDOE

"I never doubted Bill's love for me."

from 1:03

S xo

1930's America - A Feminist void?

I found a really interesting article here that comments on how Women's attitudes changed during and after the Great Depression regarding their position in society.

Society as a whole seemed to pigeon hole women, no doubt supported by a hugely patriarchal government, and wanted them back in their place: the Home!

Even Women of the time supported the idea, "A home, no matter how small, is large enough to occupy a wife's mind and time"

The lack of support for one another in a man's world, especially after the Suffragette's fought for their Daughters futures is frightening and yet very real. This feeling of mistrust is prevalent throughout the play as well.

CBL is a genius!

The legend that is Reno....

Hi everyone! Happy New year- cant wait to see you all "demain"....

So when researching the importance of Reno during this time I stumbled over this which I thought was super duperly useful... if you start reading from the funny poem it explains so much about what Reno symbolised then (and now) and why all the women went there;

http://askville.amazon.com/Reno-Nevada-start-place-American-women-wanted-divorce/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=4541176

xx

Great blogging gals

Hi all,

Happy new year! Just logged on and very much enjoyed watching/reading all your posts. This is all really useful stuff. Looking forward to seeing you for a 10am start tomorrow for kick off!

Emma x

The ''Perfect'' Wife?

http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/marital-rating-scale-circa-1930/

Here's a link to a 'Marital Rating Scale' from the 1930s to determine whether or not you were a good husband or wife.

Whilst some points are really quite funny, there are many that we can probably still relate to in our relationships today.