Movie Review Monday: Catch Me If You Can

Catch Me If You Can is a Spielberg film that is a surprisingly light hearted comedy/adventure about 17 year old Frank Abagnale Jr. who not only impersonates teachers, airline pilots, doctors, and lawyers but cons more than 4 million dollars in process. Leonardo DiCaprio turns out a clever and witty performance as Frank Jr. His opposition is the sometimes dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty, played by Tom Hanks. This whole film takes place in the golden age of flight in American, the friendly skies of Pan American Airways, the 1960's. The fashion is mostly preppy, middle to upper class and chock full of 60s goodness.

To get through an airway crowded with FBI agents, Frank ends up at a ladies school/college and picks up a bevy of new flight attendants to be his distractions. These suits are the iconic Pan Am blue, and were made to look exactly like the uniforms of the period. Spot on!

Frank poses as a student doing a report on Pan Am to learn all he can before posing as a pilot. This is the high Main Line prep look for the 1960s.

Agent Hanratty, looking very FBI in his thin tie, goes to visit Frank's mother (who is now remarried). She is rocking a bit older hairstyle here, but very fitting for a woman of her age and status.

Frank's constant need to impress his father Frank Sr. drives him to create more and more elaborate personas.

Check out these great Tortoise shell sun glasses. 

Jennifer Garner makes a cameo as a 60's call girl. This is a behind the scenes shot. Her hair is on point for the mid to late 60s.

My favorite outfit by far in this film is Frank's white and orange mod sweater.

I mean look at this thing!

Posing as Dr. Conners, Frank falls for one of the young night nurses, Brenda (played by Amy Adams).

If you haven't caught this film yet you need to (it's score on Rotten Tomatoes is 96%)! It is a fun, fast, and touching film about a young man's struggle to have all the things in life he feels like he should. Based in part on a true story the real Frank Abagnale Jr. actually loved the film and how it portrayed him. You can read more about the film and the real Frank here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can

Rosie the Riveter and her legacy

We all know the now iconic World War 2 poster known as "Rosie the Riveter" but who were the women behind the epic campaign to help women into the work force during war time?

Dr. Frances Carter, aka Fran, is once of the faces behind one of the most well known pop culture icons of America. Never one to hog credit Fran is quoted as saying that "Rosie represents all of us".

While learning to put B-52 bombers together in her coveralls Fran and her husband John communicated long distance via V-Mail (victory mail).

More than 50 years after the end of World War 2 Fran and her husband founded the American Rosie The Riveter Association as a way of honoring and remembering all the women who entered the work force and their children.

Here are some other great War Time Rosies:

A Rosie working on the A-31 Vengeance in Tennessee 1943

Assembly line in Texas, 1942

Norman Rockwell's Rosie

Douglas Aircraft Co. 1942

Rococo Punk! AKA SUPER VINTAGE FUN TIMES

So this past weekend at #ConCarolinas some friends and I decided to go dressed in Rococo Punk! For those of you who don't know that is when you blend the fashion of the Rococo (sometimes called the Georgian Period) with the hard hitting statements of Punk Rock....This look was very popular once super rocker Adam Ant shot several of his videos in the Rococo Punk style!

SWOON

More recently however, the look gained even more popularity when the 2006 Sofia Coppola film Marie Antoinette came out! What a feast for the eyes! This sympathetic look at the life of the doomed French queen was over laid by punk and new wave music ( check out the soundtrack here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_(soundtrack) )

The cast posing for a shoot in Vanity Fair Magazine

You can read a great article on the rise of Rococo Punk here: https://steampunk.wonderhowto.com/news/alternate-history-steampunk-rococopunk-0141206/

So ready to see my look? I titled this one Red, White, and F*ck You!

First let me take a selfie!

Everything you are seeing I made myself!

Photo credit to the great Lisa Margolis

Fun times with the Rococo Punk Tribe!

All in all a HELLA fun weekend! Stay tuned!

When Vintage and Nerdom Collide!

Captain's take selfies too!

Hi there all....so many of you might know my love for vintage knows no bounds, but many of you might not be aware that I am a huge nerd! I love comic books, superheroes, Sci-fi, Fantasy....etc. One of my greatest loves is Star Trek; so what better way to combine two things I love than by making the vintage 1960's Scant Dress from the original series?

The "scant" dress in all its glory on Lt. Nyota Uhura. This is right in line with the 60's style of being super short, almost tunic like in style.  

A close up reveals intricate seaming, as well as letting us get a good look at her insignia patch (over the heart) and rank braids( at the wrist).

So after much research and finding the right braids (amazon)  and pattern and fabric I began my process....The pattern I was using, and for the life of me I can't find a link to it, was the original pattern. The pieces were not intuitively put together, so figuring it out was kinda crazy. Also, I didn't want to cut my original pattern so I traced it out onto paper first.

In the end though, it turned out amazing and I really love it. I made one for my PLM (platonic life mate) Lenore; who of course is my Vulcan first officer.

Lenore and I posing for our own original Star Trek series which we titled as "Armistice"

A great outdoor shoot after a local Con.

Possibly my favorite shot of this outfit! Taken by a friend of mine at HeroesCon 2016 in Charlotte.

I wanted to include a shot from the original series which shows and ensign in the gold scant dress. Here Captain Kirk shows his great 23rd Century attitude when someone questions having a woman on board, in the crew.

How do you get to cross your special interests into one another? Have a vintage or vintage inspired cosplay? If so, share below!

Thanks,
Vicki
xoxox