Art, music, whatever
Let’s move away from the silent era to more modern times, e.g. Sophia Loren (who needs no introduction to Longtime Readers). This week, we’ll look at some B/W pics, and next week, color. Here we go:
A lot of the above can be right-clicked to embiggen… if you absolutely have to.
As the saying goes: “I would lick the beach sand off her feet, and die a happy man.” (I don’t know who said that; it might have been me.)
Apparently, there’s this Brit TV show called Our Yorkshire Farm, starring the matriarch thereof, Amanda Owens (45+). I use the “matriarch” term advisedly, as she has foaled no fewer than nine chilluns (!!!) while working the sheep farm.
Here she is:
When not in farm gear, she doesn’t look too bad, either:
When asked how she still manages to look so good, she apparently replied, “chasing lambs, fakery and underwear” (which automatically endeared her to me, by the way).
She and her husband have split up, incidentally, but she still works the farm with him.
After yesterday’s post featuring Emma Mackey, here’s an even better caterpillar-to-butterfly series, this time about mousy erotic-artist-clarinettist Lily, played by Tanya Reynolds. Here’s Lily:
…and here’s Tanya:
Yikes.
More of the Sex Ed totties will follow as more are revealed, so to speak.
I’ve been watching the outstanding Brit TV show Sex Education — which, after a shaky start in the first episode-and-a-half, has turned into must-watch stuff for me. (I’m currently just into Season 2 of 3.)
But this isn’t a review of the show. Rather, I want to focus on [sic] a couple of the totties who star in the show.
Here’s Maeve, played by Franco-Brit actress Emma Mackey, as she appears in the show (as the school slut):
You can see that she’s pretty, but of course the character hides her true beauty:
Looks like a combination of Françoise Hardy and Brigitte Bardot, n’est-ce pas?
And then there’s tomorrow’s vision…
In a life cut tragically short at age 24, Martha Mansfield nevertheless stood out by virtue of her self-belief and ambition, resulting in a stage career, a Ziegfeld Girl, and appearances in several silent movies. Oh, and her beauty.
Incidentally, if you read her bio at the above link, does her death not strike you as… suspicious?
Back when I were a callow yoot, my body wracked with frequent floods of hormonal changes, this kind of dress was popular with the girls:
…and for very good reason, if I may say so — not quite see-through, but the loosely-fitting fitting material made the dresses wonderfully sexy in any kind of a breeze.
Frankly, this is far preferable compared with fashions today, where everything is out in the open:
Of course, I may be wrong — I sometimes am — but not in this case, I think.
Just by way of exposition, the lady in the top photo is BritTV star “Yorkshire Shepherdess” and mother-of-nine Amanda Owen (48), while the lower photos are of some young houris of no particular significance.