marilyn reading

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Aren't these pictures just gorgeous? I had to seriously stop myself from including every image I could find of Marilyn Monroe reading in this round-up.

Aside from just how lost she seems in what she's reading (I love that picture of her on the couch with the books of the floor! It reminds me of some of the positions you find kids in when they're reading books that they're really into), I love that there are images of her reading everything from scripts to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, from a picture book to James Joyce's Ulysses.

Yes, indeed, these images make me happy.

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via The Daily Mail

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via The Walt Whitman Archive

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What's black and white and striped all over?

illustration by "it looks good to me"

It's the one thing I am lusting after for my summer wardrobe this year... a black and white striped dress in the style of any these old Hollywood classics...

I love this image of Jean Seberg from the French classic film "Breathless":

But doesn't this "Sahara Striped Dress" read like a stripey dress for the modern pixie?

I've long been in love with the cowl neck on Marilyn's sweet little summer dress:

And I like how this little number by marimekko is playing with the collar on its striped dress so nicely too:

Oh, Lauren you just might be the coolest lady in town in your striped dress and your record player:

And if this ModCloth dress gave me an ounce of your elegance - I'd wear it 'til it was in tatters:

Of course, I am willing to compromise. I would be willing to add a striped dress into my summer wardrobe in something other than black and white. I mean, I can bite the bullet and go for blue and white stripes too as in, I don't know, this super cute dress if someone forced it on me...