# 1920s fashion drawing help needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 26, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750 "2012-01-26T17:30:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/1 "2012-01-26T17:30:27Z")
I’m currently building a resin kit of [Morticia Addams](http://cs.finescale.com/FSMCS/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00.01.40.72.49/27.jpg), and doing such slight modifications as strike my fancy. 🙂 The pose is rather languid, and I’m thinking of relocating her bosom, which is rather high and full, to give her a more slinky look. What I’m thinking of is a particular style of illustration I saw once, in which the girl’s pose is lazily sexy, the figure is elongated, the legs long, and the bosom is not large, and rather low on the chest. Oh, and a big floppy hat. I believe that the style dates from the 1920s or 1930s, but my google-fu seems to be weak. Can any of you steer me towards drawings in that style? I thought it was [Tamara De Lempicka](http://www.mystudios.com/artgallery/paintings/105001-105500/105002/size1.jpg), but her drawings have a higher bosom than I remember; the drawings I’m remembering had that sort of Soviet-realist style, though. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/2 "2012-01-26T18:04:41Z")
Do an image search for **Paul Iribe** ; he may be sort of what you are looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/3 "2012-01-26T19:49:08Z")
Thanks–but not quite what I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/4 "2012-01-26T20:06:50Z")
So you want a 1920s-style “fashion plate”? ---
**Author:** ![Sandra\_Battye](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sandra_battye/32/552_2.png) [@Sandra\_Battye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandra_Battye)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/5 "2012-01-26T22:20:29Z")
Art deco? More like [Erte](https://www.google.com/search?q=erte&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=DNAhT9XYOaqciAL_wZz0Bw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC0Q_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=799)? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/6 "2012-01-27T01:56:11Z")
I was thinking something more Erte would look nice. If you go that route you definitely want to do something to minimize her far too perky breasts. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/7 "2012-01-28T01:53:09Z")
> [@Sandra\_Battye](#): > > Art deco? More like [Erté](https://www.google.com/search?q=erte&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=DNAhT9XYOaqciAL_wZz0Bw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC0Q_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=799)? Before I even opened the thread I was thinking Erte, but that doesn’t fit the “Soviet-realist style” described in the OP. I do think an Erté-esque Morticia would be great, though! ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/8 "2012-01-28T03:13:05Z")
Well, it’s not Erte I was thinking of, either, though his work is nice. [This](http://marialaterza.blogspot.com/2011/08/jean-gabriel-domergue-1889-1962-francia.html) isn’t the guy I was thinking of, either (warning: link plays music)–but it’s the same idea: Slender with low bosom. [QUOTE=Rhiannon8404] If you go that route you definitely want to do something to minimize her far too perky breasts. [/QUOTE] The old bosom is gone and a new one, less high and perky, is being constructed. 😉 I’ve got a pretty good idea of where I’m going with the model now, so I guess I don’t need visual references any more. Thank you to every one who tried; I appreciate the effort! ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/9 "2012-01-28T22:39:30Z")
I’m more curious about where you got the model and how you are reshaping it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-fashion-drawing-help-needed/610750/10 "2012-01-29T18:58:35Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > I’m more curious about where you got the model and how you are reshaping it myself. I bought the model from Jimmy Flintstone at Wonderfest, a huge yearly model figure/sci-fi contest/convention. I don’t see it on his website, but I suppose an email would elicit a response as to availability. It’s made of polyurethane resin, except for the hands and scissors, which are white metal. I seem to recall the price being around $60, but I was so jazzed at being at Wonderfest that it’s all a bit of a blur 😉 Reshaping is simple; you grind or sand away what you don’t like and resculpt using two-part epoxy putty (I use white Milliput, but many others swear by Aves). Modifying a pose is also simple; cut apart the limb, drill the cut ends for a bit of 1/16 brass rod, bend to the new pose, then fill in the gaps with putty. Painting is up to you. I use a basecoat of hobby enamels, then finish up using brush-painted oils, which are easy to “blend” to get smooth color transitions. Many others paint using an airbrush, especially on large figures; Morticia is right at the transition between small (brush painting is best) to large (airbrushing is best). I’ve got to run just now, but I’ll take a pic or two of Morticia and post them later, probably under a new thread, since this one is wandering a bit from its original intent. 🙂