Fan-tastic…!
With the recent humid weather a fan is a very fashionable and ‘demure’ way of cooling off, I only own a few including the purple one featured here. Prompted by seeing a recent magazine article about the re-emergence of fans in fashion I thought I would ‘investigate’. The fan I own was the most usual way of acquiring of a fan, a present brought back from holiday, so I thought I’d take a look to see what was on offer. The only significant place to buy fan’s I’ve found was an oriental stall in the indoor market, which had a plethora of attractive yet predictable samples. Then there were the seafront shops near me though with a very ‘kiss me quick’ edge (not a totally bad thing I guess…at times…).
my purple fan from Cambodia + the oriental market stall
I also spotted a stunning red one pictured here at a recent car boot sale but apart from that no High Street shops had caught on with the trend like why…? (talk about a lost opportunity…). Oh well you can’t have everything…(though always good to try…) but that didn’t stop me doing a little bit of ‘pictorial research’ from my vast quantity of vintage magazines. Where I found two very seductive examples from my trusty Golden Hands ‘library.’ You have of course the electric variety which really aren’t the same, there is no visual interest and I’m sure back in the day there was a whole language of fans to either invite or repel a suitor (hey that would be very useful...now).
the Golden Hands images with an alluring and distinctly Spanish edge…works!
The fluttering of a fan at just the right angle and height to look the most…sensual, coy and coquettish..maybe it’s something I should try now? But will it work? Or has the art of seduction via a fan been totally lost in the ‘mists of time’….I wonder what would Jane Austen say….? With the impersonality of ‘virtual’ dating maybe the physicality of a fan would be a very good thing? So I say a ‘fanfare’ to that...but I suppose it’s just not at all ‘realistic’ is it…? Which is such a shame…oh how I wish things were different…but they are not it seems…