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Dorothy Dandridge | Fashion Crush: Black History Month Edition ♡

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Miss Dandridge I Love Your Style

In honor of Black History Month I would like to take the time to recognize an African American Women every week this month to pay homage to the women who had to fight before me. As philosopher Bernard of Charles said, " If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Nothing in this world in truly ours so it is important to pay respects to the giants who have cleared and paved the way for you.

The Life. The Legacy.

An American Actress born November 9, 1922 was an icon for being a noteworthy African American performer. Her early beginnings consisted of her and her sister, Vivian, touring much of Southern America performing a song-and-dance act created by their mother Ruby. Throughout her years of filmography she was very much noted as being stunningly beautiful.

With a total of 37 known movies, 23 known songs, and countless night club performances she was an inspiration for many minority girls and women that there was hope. Her most noteworthy work is for her role in Carmen Jones where she became the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award.

In the Black community she has been deemed "our Marilyn Monroe." Meaning the black Marilyn Monroe. There are plenty of articles that debate the two beauties but needless to say Dandridge was very much so under appreciated, which is to be expected considering her skin tone. During the time that the great Dorothy Dandridge was alive was very much a time were black lives didn't matter and it was seemingly okay. God bless her soul for being so strong and courageous during that time were our country really didn't fight for us.

There are many actresses and celebrities that pay homage and credit her works as their inspiration including Halle Berry who produced and starred in a feature film in her honor entitles Introductong Dorothy Dandridge. She was a style icon, role model, and a positive force within the entertainment industry during that time.

Style Influence

She was known for her slim but shapely figure, smooth voice and sweet smile. She was fun, playful, energetic, and sexy without being a complete sexual figure. I have so much respect for a woman of this caliber to be classy and conservative. In today's day and age you almost can't get a movie role without nudity. Though the times now and then are vastly different I hope that somewhere down the line wearing clothes and preserving your sexy comes back in style.

This is Dorothy Dandridge.

Dorothy was an African American entertainer during the 40-60's.

Dorothy was sexy and keep it classy.

Dorothy is best known for her feature in Carmen Jones.

Dorothy made waves.

Be like Dorothy.

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Kourtney Kardashian: Lady In Gold (Suit) ♡ Lai Deshay | a Fashionista's Babydoll ♡

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This Weeks Fashion Crush: Kourtney Kardashian

This episode of Ellen airs Monday January 25, 2016.

HUUNNY! HUNNY! HUNNYYY!!!

Kourtney Kardashian looks beyond stunning in her Lavin metallic blazer and short set. She first debuted this look on instagram earlier this week with no details of who the designer was so yah girl had to go on the hunt.

She Instagram herself like bad bitch alert.

A photo posted by Kourtney Kardashian (@kourtneykardash) on Jan 22, 2016 at 12:14pm PST

I actually am not a fan pursue of the Kardashian-Jenner family but when she popped up on my auto play on Youtube in that Blazer I instantly became fan-girling... over the blazer. She explained to Ellen that Kylie had gotten it for her for Christmas but it was actually her mom Kris who picked it out (Props to Mama Bear Jenner).

So after some intense Googling I finally found it, the Blazer and Short set from Lavin. [I think it might have been love at first sight... maybe even lust at first sight ;)]

Coming in at a whopping $3,198.83 I think that I can safely say that this will be a distant dream of mine... The come up is coming but uh yeah its not that close yet. But if any of you want to donate $3,400 (taxes and shipping y'all come on) I will gladly take it and pay off these loans. Your girl has priorities lol.

Now these shorts I'm on the fence about. All I can imagine is chaffing, scratching, and itching but hey, they do say there if there is no risk there is no reward. I think I might be willing to take that risk because it would be an oh so sweet reward. Just take a second and imagine how it would look on all this beautiful brown skin. I'm feeling it lol. They are still a pretty penny though coming in at $1,271.94.

Now looking at the texture shot I'm not sure, it might be chaffing, itching, and scratching free.

The Look For Less.

So this is the best I could do to find that blazer for not $3000+ its actually really reasonable, its on sale for $31.99. I can work with that.

*All of these images do not belong to me. They were not created by me nor meant to be assumed that they were taken by me. The images belong to the respective websites that were linked above.*