We are so star
struck by this beautiful
American actress and singer from the 1930s. Her
trademark image of the girl next door with exotic Polynesian features has
contributed to her film career
where she typically played most of her film roles clad
in a sarong. “Lamour appeared in a sarong in 11
of those films, meaning that fully two-thirds of her roles during that ten-year
span did not call for her to wrap herself in any manner of South Seas attire”.
The biggest impact of her Hollywood
career would be her famous
role as "Ulah" in classical film The Jungle
Princess (1936). “She publicly burned a sarong, the skimpy South Seas garment
with which she had been inseparably associated since her first starring role,
in Paramount’s 1936 tropical romance The
Jungle Princess (Wilhelm
Thiele) (Head and Calistro, 67)”
Looking at these
vintage photos, we find her to be very fitting and attractive in a sarong. It’s
almost like that everlasting advertisement of all time to show what a sarong
represents on a woman’s body. “There was something
indelible about the connection between Lamour and her trademark garment:
audiences seemed to remember her not for the variety of roles she played, but
for those roles in which she appeared in a revealing sarong.”
This South Sea heroine is a reminder to our love and passion for Sarong fashion and as the saying goes, “You Can’t Go Wrong with a Sarong!”
So tell
us, what do you think about this sarong beauty icon?
(Text source: http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/22/lamour and note: these images does not belong to us)