1910: Early July
Wait, THIS is the year they forego a drawing? I need to see a tub gown, please and thank you. I Googled it and couldn't find a definition.
1910: Mid July
"Dear Lord, in your wisdom, please strike down this cockerel, whom I believe to be the reincarnation of my husband and therefore a cad of the highest order. Send a replacement."
1911: Early July
"Okay, I'm holding it, but how do I tip it now? It's so HEAVY. I hate buttling."
1911: Mid July
"Hi there. My horse left with another rider. Give a girl a twirl?"
1912: Early July
This is me, emotionally, right now. But with more drowsiness.
1912: Mid July
"And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids."
1913: Early July
"Maybe if I put this mask on, that Interpretive Dream Clown won't tangle with me."
1913: Mid July
"It is ever so hard to eavesdrop in this hat."
1914: Early July
From the horror film "Butterflies Can Bite."
1914: Mid July
"If you don't provide fainting sleighs or tea poles this season, society will cast you out as a feckless pretender. Pass it on."
1915: Early July
"What an ENORMOUS fork," Midge giggled.
1915: Mid July
When Stella looked back upon her life, she realized it was covertly ripping blooms from her neighbor's garden that gave her a thirst for murder.
1916: Early July
"An umbrella AND a hat! How very."
1916: Mid July
"Goodbye, my darlings," she sobbed, giving them one last kiss before throwing the flowering carcasses into the air. "I will avenge your killing. I think it was Stella."
1917: Early July
"And that's how your cousin ended up in the slammer."
1917: Mid July
"They're not umbrellas, dear. They're social-distancing sticks."
1918: Early July
"O mighty overlord, I prayed to you in 1910 to strike down the cock and gift me another, and you DID, and he is fine, but will not crow. HOWEVER WILL I WAKE?"
1918: Mid July
"Sure Agnes, one second. The man-hedge I grew has fully matured and written me a love note."
1919: Early July
Vogue figured out how to carry a baby in your thighs.
1919: Mid July
"O almighty Lord, giving me a parrot who can talk back to me was a real downgrade."
1920: Early July
"One word, Mortimer. One word about the quiche and I will SNIP, I swear it."
1920: Mid July
The opera was so long, she could no longer tell where her skirt ended and the furniture began.
1921: Early July
"That'll teach YOU to get handsy."
1921: Mid July
As she slipped and tumbled to her death, Hazel thought, "I don't even LIKE the bloody bouquet toss."
1922: Early July
"Well, it's so HOT out, you know, so I needed a tennis coat with at least SOME white in it."
1922: Mid July
"FINALLY my hat is growing!"
1923: Early July
"We're so LUCKY we've found the only giant tree at the beach to lean against."
1923: Mid July
"Be right in darling. I'm just sunning my pelvis for a moment in..." *checks cover line* "... New York?!? Mmmkay."
1924: Early July
"And people actually say they LIKE fishing? Great Scott, is the whole WORLD made of lies?"
1924: Mid July
I call this Lillith Crane: The Later Years.
1925: Early July
1925: Mid July
1926: Early July
"Twinkle, twinkle, little Vogue, deliver me a handsome rogue. He'll need a yacht, this eligible mister, And I wouldn't say no to a dishy sister."
1926: Mid July
I love it when Vogue gets all art-deco on us.
1927 Early July
Carly was beginning to regret offering to research the hurricane for her radio station.
1928: Early July
This outfit cries out for a hat.
1928: Mid July
"Patricia, what the devil kind of party is this?" "Shut it, Oliver. I'm watching. FOR NOW."
1929
"Breathe, Gina. And then hit this thing clean over the river and into your mother-in-law's living room."
1930: Mid July
"Goodbye, Redbeard. I shan't wait for you. If I'm being honest, you didn't smell terrific."
1931: Early July
"Summer Fashion Number" doesn't feel like a complte thought.
1931: Mid July
And to think, we were still 50-plus years away from Splash.
1932: Early July
1932: Mid July
.... are these Cliffs Notes?
1933: Early July
"Well, hello there, friend, you look perfectly harmless! Come in for a cuddle!"
1933: Mid July
"Oh thank GOD it's still there. Marv, I had the strangest nightmare that a fish bit off my nipple."
1934: Early July
"Jeannette, it was a DREAM, I TOLD YOU, fish don't eat nipples. Now get in there."
1934: Mid July
"It was the first lie my big sister ever told me."
1935: Early July
This photo of a hat is better than a lot of modern Vogue covers.
1935: Mid July
If she had to catch a pox, at least it was a beautiful one.
1936: Early July
1936: Mid July
1937: Early July
"Irene, you do get the MOST powerful grass for these parties."
1937: Mid July
She would be enraged when she discovered SPF.
1938: Early July
In the meantime she did not make that mistake again.
1938: Mid July
Those stripes would be welcome today, truly.
1939: Early July
I assume sunglasses whose arms go OVER the ear did not have a very successful run.
1939: Mid July
"You're wearing your scarf wrong, BRENDA."
1940: Early July
The U.S. was not yet in the war, of course, but this does have a decidedly military feel to it -- more than your usual boating shots.
1940: Mid July
Digging the Robin Hood crafts, Vogue. I didn't see that coming.