Crazy Colour Photoshoot

Continuing along with some of the postcards so colourful as to be blinding...

I love this set for combining the look of having been coloured with highlighters with the look of detailed stenciling on the woman's dress, and I love the way the lack of tinting on the woman's face, legs, and hands and the entirety of the man gives them a surreal sense of unreality, like they are bright pink ghosts. I love the really long stems on the flowers that stick out oddly in almost every picture. I love how they are all sent from the same man to his fiancee on the 20th, 21st, and 24th of July (1929), and I love how he always notes the time he wrote (this is not uncommon in the period, but I always love it). I love how all the messages cut off mid-sentence-- he must have continued on in a longer letter or on other cards. I just love this set. 

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On this one, I also love how the tinting of the dress extends past the actual hemline of her dress!

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