Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Teddy Girls

Some of these photos remind me of the occasion that Pretty Lady attended a Halloween party in the Castro, dressed as Humphrey Bogart. Her costume was greeted with such impassioned, drunken approval by the boyfriend of a friend of hers, that she suspects it had something to do with the subsequent demise of that particular friendship. Some women do not handle their competitive instincts at all honestly.

3 comments:

The Aardvark said...

Say, is this a Diane Arbus photo? It seems a little sane for her work, but it does have the feel.

Pretty Lady said...

No, click on the link in the title! These were taken in England after the war. I found them deeply haunting.

The Aardvark said...

Wow...you've opened up a whole new era. Post-war England is really terra incognita
for me. I had not even heard the term "Teddy Girl".