STYLIN'

It's always sad to find an image like this with such damage, but it's nice knowing that it can be easily fixed with Photoshop. She's shop worn and was tossed aside. I liked her and respected what she was doing. She was stylin'!


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Gypsy in COLOR

This is the last photo I have of Gypsy. An older, but still stylish woman. I wish I knew more about her other than she was fashionable and loved to travel. Still, that's really all I have. It's also all I have about Jean who travelled to Hawaii on a Matson liner in the late 1920s to early 1930s. So I guess I'll just have to be satisfied with what little I know about both of these women. Adventure on the high seas.

And to just clear this up I will again say this woman is NOT Gypsy Rose Lee and probably would not wish to be compared with her. I'm the one who named her Gypsy because she looks so much like her when she was young. Go back through past posts and you'll see all the photos I have of her.

Bon Voyage Gypsy!

Gypsy at the CAPTAIN'S PARTY

I think Gypsy was a very social person even though I only have a few photos of her with other people. She certainly looks to be having a grand time at this shipboard party, but it's the other people who draw me in, specifically the two fellows eyeing each other across the table.

Now certainly, this was just a moment caught that meant nothing, but out of context it strikes me very funny. And the fellow in the background with the hat looking up at the balloon, I could easily delete that balloon and we'd all be left wondering why this partygoer was staring at the ceiling.

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I'm thinking this was a Pacific cruise. Tomrrow...the gift shop!

Gypsy SETS SAIL

Gypsy went on cruise ships back in the day when it was a pleasant experience. The ships were beautiful and didn't look like the horrors of today, tankers filled to brim with shipping crates. There was fun and excitement to sailing across the sea; it started before you left port as you listened to the band and threw streamers off the ship to the people below on the docks. Those streamers were the only thing that tethered you to those not going along. You knew you were starting out on an adventure.

As a child in Hawaii we used to go down to visit new military families when they arrived. The dock was at the Honolulu Tower and there beside it would be one of the beautiful Matson liners. To a kid playing in the streamers thrown from the ship was just as much fun as being the one throwing them.

No idea where Gypsy was heading, but she certainly looks very happy. Over the next few days there will be two more photos of her aboard ship and a hint that she is most likely aboard a ship in the Pacific.

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In Gypsy's OWN WORDS

Gypsy POSING WITH A CAT

The kitty in this shot looks like a calico. I can identify with that. I can also identify with the cat fur she now has on her dress. Packing tape. I'm just sayin' packing tape! The only thing I've found to take cat hair off of stuff is packing tape. If someone else has a better idea I'm open to your suggestions.

Gypsy again looking lovely.

Gypsy POSE

There's really nothing to say about this other than once again this woman looks lovely. I'm imagining this is 1940s to early '50s. People were still wearing gloves in San Francisco in the early '60s too.

Again, I'd love to see all of the colors in this.

The next few days are nothing more than a fashion show by a woman who had a lot of style throughout her life. Well, I have no idea what she was like as a child. She'd be a fascinating story. What was her childhood like that she grew up to be so fashion conscious? You'll eventually see the final shot that shows right up through her later years she was stepping out.

GYPSY

Maybe you'll see it, maybe you won't. I'm referring to this woman's resemblance to Gypsy Rose Lee.

No information about this photo, but I'm guessing she loved the person who was taking the shot. She looks beautiful and I've tried to imagine what color the gown is. According to the only color photo I have of her, taken late in life, she had red hair. So what color would have looked lovely with red hair and pale skin?

A FORGOTTEN ROSE

I don't know anything about this woman other than what I can "see" in the photos I bought. I did a post about her several years ago entitled "I hope HER VALENTINE WAS TRUE." I've decided to feature the other photos I have of her; let you enjoy this beautiful and stylish woman.

I call her Gypsy, which would probably displease her, but there is one specific photo where she reminds me of Gypsy Rose Lee. Yes, the burlesque star; the high class stripper who my mother used to tell me about seeing when she had a stopover in Chicago while taking the train to California. She always told me the woman had style.

So take a look at the old Valentine and then the photo below. There will be 11 more in the series. This one was taken at a studio with the name "Jerome" on the back.

I can say that she lived in the San Francisco area; I do know that much. I so wish I'd bought more of her photos, but the seller at the antique store no longer has a booth.