I am quite lucky to have female friends that adhere to the style and fashions that i am researching, they allowed me to look at their tattoo's closely, they showed me clothing that they wear that they themselves would consider steriotypically "Pin up/Rockabilly". i dont however know how they would feel about photographs of their clothes and body art, piercings etc being posted up in a blog which is why no visual research is included here. i notiched while talking to them and being given the help they did that a few similarities that they joke about started to become more apparent:
- the girls all had dyed hair in one shape or another, Carys has brown hair with flashes of green intertwining through out it, ashleigh changes her hair quite oftern but at the time was sporting lilac and pink hair, Sarah D had an underlayer of purple fading into pink, Sarah H has bleached flashes in her hair that she changes as she pleases at the time it was turquoise, red, pink, blue, green and purple, Nicci has platinum blonde hair with a few flashes of blue on one side and Emma dyes her blonde hair black and is the most steriotypical Pin up girl (which is not an insult she dosent mind people saying it) she stands out as she has the Betty page style fringe and usually wears fire red lipstick.
- the eye makeup stands out quite allot, most of the time (because all the time is incorrect every girl has their lazy days) the girls wear dark eye makeup, some wear the winged eye make up done with pencil or liquid, some wear just khol eyepencil that they smudge to do the smokey rock look and one or two like to change it up with a bit of coloured eyeliner.
- the prints on the clothing were quite a stand out, my friends are deffinately not afreaid of colour, polka dots, love hearts, check or plaid, stripes and Kistch style prints (owls, swallows, tattoo prints) all the clothes my friends wear all give the illusion of a curvy frame, ashleigh who is naturally slim tends to wear high waisted skirts and simple tops tucked in to accentuate and make the most of her shape, the curvy hourglas shape seems to be a popular style choice in the fashion scene as most underwear my friends speak about and call "staples" give the illusion of a tiny waist and well formed hips.
- the hair accessorys seem to all keep allot of similarities bandannas and hair peices seem to be the most common, my friends mostly have a nose piercing there bottom lobes and top eat and mone of two have dabbled in septum piercings and lip piercings but no longer have them except Emma who has a monroe piercing (top lip tot he side to give the illusion ofmaralin monroes beauty spot)
The girls then gave me a list of clothing brands to look into that specilise in this style of clothing acessory and footwear to look at:
- Iorn fist
- Hell bunny
- Pinupgirlclothing.com
- Soho
- Banned
I still need to speak to my friend who is a tattoo artist (or even bug my own when i am next under the needle) to find out how tattoos age and react on the skin so the ones on my models wont look like stamps.
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