Classic Modern Beauty: Ingrid Boulting

She started off as a ballet dancer, but during the Swinging Sixties Ingrid Boulting found her niche as one of the miniskirted models in the Twiggy/Jean Shrimpton genre:

Note the period’s dramatic style:

 

She’s often described as “South African”, but that’s just an accident of birth. Her parents were both Brits, and went back to Britishland soon after she was born.

Apparently, she’s now a yoga teacher in Southern California.

4 comments

  1. In case you are wondering, your weekly classic beauty posts sometimes serve as an anodyne to some of the rot infecting the Internet. A small slice of sanity in a mad world. Keep up the good work.

  2. She has that 20s “flapper” look. Big eyes, petite featutes. Truly refreshing in today’s world.

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