Comments on: Classic Covers: The Stanlaws Girls http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/12/02/art-entertainment/stanlaws-girls.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stanlaws-girls Home of The Saturday Evening Post Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Charles Neumann http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/12/02/art-entertainment/stanlaws-girls.html/comment-page-1#comment-190375 Charles Neumann Sun, 11 Dec 2011 17:23:29 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=43743#comment-190375 Very interesting. Mr. Stanlaws had quite a style. Interesting to see past fashion styles as well. The painters doing the billboard was perhaps my favorite.

]]> By: Bob McGowan http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/12/02/art-entertainment/stanlaws-girls.html/comment-page-1#comment-190140 Bob McGowan Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:08:36 +0000 http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/?p=43743#comment-190140 Diana, I love Stanlaws covers! I really did not know about him until this feature you did here.

My favorite is the April 14, 1934. It’s just so perfect in its simplicity (unclutteredness), yet it’s not simple at all. The colors he chose help complete the astonishing look. The March 24, 1928 cover really IS so simple and elegant that I almost can’t get over it!

I also like the Feb. 20, 1926 cover, but do find the dead animal’s head at the bottom rather shocking and disturbing. I also find the reflection on the woman’s tea cup from the saucer to be rather bizarre in itself. She also looks distressed–to me.

I do love the green background very much, and it needs to be remembered (especially about the fur) that I’m writing this 85 years later and am not trying to judge what must have been acceptable fashion for the American woman in the ’20s.

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