Noir Sunday with Red Shoes

Luckily for me, most of today had nothing to do with Football.

There's something so great about living in San Francisco, where you can dress up like whatever you want no matter what day it is and no one will give you a second look. If anything, they'll compliment you ("hey, nice skirt") or just take your photo.

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Today, me 'n Mr. and Mrs. Red Shoes went to the last (and maybe best) movie of the film noir festival, Sweet Smell of Success.

They're such good sports and embrace a good reason to dress up, just like me.

They were also movie virgins (for this film), meaning that I got to enjoy them enjoying this awesome film for the first time. It was a great audience. Lots of people clapped when certain famous dialogue lines came up.

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I got to wear some special treasures that belonged to my grandma.

An awesome Lilly Daché hat covered in tiny white flowers.

Her crazy cool sunglasses.

Her little white cotton gloves and her black leather purse.

And the best part was recreating the makeup of the era. I did Joan Fontaine's eyeliner from the movie I saw yesterday, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, and Virginia Mayo lips. I even threw in a couple of beauty marks.

*sigh*

Tomorrow's gonna be kind of boring by comparison. I want to be a gun moll.

Thank Heavens... for You!

Wanna see something really cool? No kidding.

The Boy has a very very very special treasured hat.


It belonged to this guy.

I thought it would be the best possible hat from which to pick the winners of the first tangobaby photo contest! (Wouldn't you agree?)

The Boy was extremely gracious to take this wonderful piece of cinema history out of retirement for the tangobaby cause.

I was going to pick three names, so we could have three winners (just like in the Olympics). The Boy sang Thank Heaven for Little Girls while he picked the names out of his special hat.

While singing in his perfect baritone (he does have a lovely voice), these were the lucky names he picked:

Liz
Jessica
Robin

And then he was having so much fun being my comely assistant that he thought he should pick just one more name, and so he chose:

Caroline

Thank you to all who participated! I was so surprised by the number of responses I received (I wanted all of you to win, truly) and I really appreciate your enthusiasm and support!
I'll keep you posted on the Etsy store grand opening, so you can see what the most popular photos were.

ps. Jessica and Caroline: if you have blogs and would like me to link your blogs to your names in this post, please let me know in the comments. ;-)

In the meantime, enjoy a little Maurice on a Monday morning. Au revoir! Et merci!

Hat Head

Tip: If you want someone to pay you an enthusiastic compliment, wear a cute hat.

It never fails.

I'll tell you more later, but I have to get back to for the evening installment of Day 2 of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival.

With hat. More hats here.

The Mad Hatteress

It's midnight, I can't sleep, and for some reason, I feel compelled to buy a hat.

Caterpillar: Who are YOU?
Alice: This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. I -- I hardly know, sir, just at present -- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.


Help me choose which hat to buy so I can go back to sleep, or go down the rabbit hole.