Girl in a Bottle, Lola, Series, Casino de Paris Show Girl, Vintage 1920s, Assemblage Fantasy Peep Show Showgirl, Fantasy fashion Club, girlie art

Last few weeks I've created a vintage series of "Girl in a Bottle"; this one featuring Lola, a Casino de Paris showgirl of the 1920s. Her mad stage costume features a winged or claw skirt with colorful garland, a starfish bottom, matching top and tasseled head dress in colors of green, red and blue, with red dance shoes. This one of a kind bottle from around 1920 offers a nice clear view. Backside has an original vintage 1920's Lady Marian Toilet Water label, and pink lucite leaves. The bottle is covered in a variety of organic mosses, has vintage velveteen red roses and antique peach flowers and the cap is covered with vintage rhinestones. All my bottles are professionally cleaned and created in a smoke free home. Shipping is free within the United States and will be carefully packed and boxed.
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I have for years collected rare and beautiful early French tinted real photo postcards of Parisian show girls, bathing beauties, models, gypsys and perhaps ladies of the evening. I have taken these rare and lovely postcards to the finest fashion printing company in Cincinnati and had them reproduced on equivalently fine papers and sized for my bottles. Loving and admiring these colorful ladies, my joy in creating these bottles is to imagine them performing or showing off in small fantasy clubs, casinos or beaches, thinking of them as classy little peep shows. I have great respect for these women who in the 1920's were courageous, bold and unshrinking in earning their way in life, whatever their circumstances.

In America, women were slowly moving from the Victorian era, wearing clothes from their neck to their ankles, struggling to gain the vote in 1920. But this was a decade of changing attitudes reflecting fashion, often starting in Paris, where hemlines rose from their ankles to their thighs. And to this decade and these entertaining women, I hope to honor them all with beauty, creativity and bringing them back to light.

Also, when I was imagining this series, I pictured them in a miniature environment that would be elfish, woodsy, marshy, and mossy, which made me think of one of my favorite artists and her work, Jan Schmuckal, a world renown artist. We are lucky to be able to buy her work here on Etsy, which I did. So the beautiful print of her oil painting in the background is not for sale from me. Thank you kindly. Cheryl