Marilyn Monroe on a Bicycle - Looking SO Adorable

Marilyn Monroe via vintagelifenetwork

Marilyn looks so young and adorable, the puppy in the bicycle basket really melts my heart too.

What is so surprising is how fresh the stripes, and suspenders worn with her white shorts look - especially when you compare it to a few of the looks in Yves St. Laurent Cruise 2011 as seen here - well to my imaginative eye anyway.

As an added treat I found the receipt for an English bicycle Marilyn rented! :

"Receipt from Hans Ohrt Lightweight Bicycles, dated June 23, 1962, issued to "Miss Marilyn Monroe," with handwritten check payment number and date paid. Hans Ohrt Lightweight Bicycles, owned by famed bicyclist and inventor of the bike helmet, Hans Orht, was visited by Monroe two months before she passed away. There she rented an English bicycle for a month at the charge of $18.00."

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Renting bicycles was apparently fashionable and rather common in Beverly Hills circa 1962 :) Now I can only imagine just what kind of English bicycle Marilyn rented, what it looked like and just where that bicycle is now.

I love vintage bicycles, you just never know.

Matthew Modine, Bicycle, Fashion Charity Show and Other Fine Tweed Gents

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Matthew Modine carried a bicycle up the runway, (only appropriate) - His charity is Bicycle For A Day. The event was the recent "Dressed to Kilt" Charity Fashion Show.

Matthew looks awfully much like a Tweed Ride Tweeder to me, then again the charity event was part of the New York Tartan Week. Tartan a close cousin to Tweed.

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Speaking of Dapper Gents this is as good a time as any to share this with you...

(photo credit: Mark Rainey & Bill Poindexter)

The Gents you see above are two of the organizers for the recent Kansas City Tweed Ride.
More on the Kansas City Tweed Ride when I do my April Tweed Rides - a recap of all of the April Tweed Rides....coming soon, as in when the month of April is over. April looks to be another fine month for Tweed Rides. If you haven't already done so please do check The Tweed Report for upcoming Tweed Rides. Maybe there is one coming to your town?

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Now for a little summer fashion inspiration for a "non Tweed" - Tweed Ride!

(via esquire.co.uk)

Say Linens, Khaki anyone? Seer Sucker?

Ava Gardner - Vintage Bicycle Photo

Ava Gardner on Her Bicycle!

Have a lovely Friday! Wait for that matter have a Wonderful Weekend...

Winter Cure- Natalia Vodianova - Summer Bicycle

(photo via carmelb)

Winter blues got you down? Super Model Natalia Vodianova is on one of the most beautiful customized bicycles I think I have ever seen. This is thoroughly inspiring! It should help get anyone started and thinking about summer with just enough time to get a project bicycle going....

My (New) Fav Cycle Chic Photo - Catherine Baba via Tommy Ton

(photocredit: tommy ton)

perfect bohemian luxe, beautiful chic heels, classy bicycle, classy & huge big bicycle panniers (said panniers all the bigger to stuff Paris fashions into)... Yes, it all adds up to make this possibly my most favorite cycle chic photo to date.

I'm so fantasy driven at times. Yet this is more than a fantasy. This woman, Catherine Baba is a well regarded fashion influencer, she actually did bicycle to and fro to the runway shows during the Paris Fashion Week Shows - and she was captured doing so by no less than Tommy Ton of JaknJill. That much of the story is all quite real and that's what makes this such a favorite photo for me.

Now to see this photo in much better detail just click on the image. I know in advance everyone is going to want to know exactly what bicycle she is riding and who makes those excellent panniers she has on her bicycle.

A little more back story on Tommy Ton. He along with a select group of other fashion bloggers are shaking up the established order of just who is winning the hearts and minds of devoted fashion lovers. Old school is to buy a magazine, new school is check in with your favorite fashion blogger. Creme de la Creme fashion bloggers are now being given front row seats at the big couture fashion shows.

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Just added a new design that so made me think of Catherine Baba....

Vivienne Westwood Seen Riding her Pashley Bicycle (Again)

(photocredit:SplashNews/via The Hub)

Here she is - Viv Westwood caught again recently riding her Pashley bicycle. My, what a HUGE fan I am of Vivienne, but you knew that having read this past post and then this one. Okay then so you never read my old posts -

NOW go check out those two links at any rate and find out why Viv Westwood is a fashion designer you just have to know about. Hint: it's for her views on bicycling and climate change.

Artists on Bikes Calender - David Byrne / Cindy Sherman -December

(photo credit:Lukas Wassmann / photo source: Artists on Their Bicycles New York - 2010)

David Byrne and Cindy Sherman are the featured NYC Artists on Bikes- for December 2010...it's a calendar available from the Swiss Institute. This is a limited edition, 5oo numbered pieces.

What a great Christmas bicycle gift idea if you admire artists on bicycles! The artists are Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Collier Schorr, Ugo Rondinone, Richard Phillips, Amy Granat, Rainer Ganahl, Rita Ackermann, Aurel Schmidt, NN, Maurizio Cattelan, Ryan McGinley, Pierre Huyghe, David Byrne and Cindy Sherman.

I'm a big fan of David Byrne. This you already know - if you remember his book which I was so excited to read and then review.

Dita VonTeese - Bicycle - Vampirish Vamp

(photo credit: Russian Harpers Bazaar)

Dita Von Teese posing in the pages of Harper's Bazaar -Russia. So lovely wicked and certainly inspirational for any aspiring Vampire Vixens on bicycles. I love Halloween.

Eva Mendes with Bicycle --- Fashion and the Bicycle Live ON!

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My, Eva Mendez looks AMAZING! This photo is so dreamy. A few days ago.... Indian Summer and all the girls downtown were wearing flitty little dresses like Eva's. Today the wind was blowing 60 miles per hour with a definite bitter bite of cold in the air. Enough of the weather report and now back to enjoying this stellar photo of Eva!

Buster Keaton on a Bicycle

(photo via O-Archives)

Buster Keaton with a movie 'sweetie' rides a bicycle, .....a picture in time, silver screen , silent films. I love watching old silent film classics on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

I also like how this photo is vaguely reminiscent of the Italia Vogue photo I posted just prior to this one. One more thing, I would wear her whole look in a minute, every bit of it with the exception of bobbing off my (very long) hair like hers.

Ginger Rodgers --- on her Bicycle

From time to time I post vintage photos of 'Celebrities on Bicycles' from a collection of photos I've been amassing. Here we have the lovely Ginger Rodgers!

Sir Paul McCartney -- Bicycle Dad

(images via Curitiba Cycle Chic)

What a lovely sight to see Sir Paul McCartney taking Daughter Beatrice for a bicycle ride! According to Curitiba Cycle Chic these photos were taken just last weekend in the Hamptons.

Top Models Still Ride Bicycles -- NYC - Hana on a Vintage Bike

(photo via bloglovin via citzencouture)

This is Hana, a Top fashion Model on her vintage bicycle in NYC. This is a candid shot and not something posed for a fashion shoot. Actual life. Real, everyday clothes the model wears in her normal everyday life.

One of my earliest blog postings and one that continues to be one of my most googled postings was called Super Models Ride Junkers and Clunkers. It featured Agyness Deyn and in a large part it was she who made that posting so vastly popular. When I spotted the original photo via a LondonCycleChic, I picked up on the fact she was riding what looked to be a vintage bicycle and/or dutch style bicycle (or 'lovingly' called by some a 'clunker' when compared to sleek fixie bikes).
Another very early post I did was called Super Models on Bicycles OR ‘Don’t Hate Me ‘Cause I’m Beautiful’. It carried on along in a similiar (but funnier) vein.

I love this photo of Hana and I'm so happy to report the streets of NYC still has Models aplenty on "clunkers".

more related posts:

Be Safe: Super Models, and You the 1st Time Nervous Rider…

The Best Chic Bicyclist – SuperModel - Agyness Deyn

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As a side note: I couldn't help but notice the lovely vintage Schwinn bicycle Jennine (...fabulous fashion blogger extrodinaire!) of the coveted has recently acquired so she can ride the streets of Chicago in style.

Diane Kruger on a Bicycle -- ELLE France

(Photo via ELLE France)

Vivienne Westwood .... Pashley Bicycle

(photo via glamourmagazine.co.uk)

I loved coming across this little interview with Vivienne Westwood. It answers a reader's question in a prior post with Vivienne as to what bicycle she rides. It's a Pashley.

"How far do you cycle?

Every day from home to work, which is Clapham to Battersea. But I would cycle anywhere in town.

What bike do you ride?


I ride a Pashley.

Why do you cycle?

Because it’s convenient and the quickest way to get around.

Cycling tip?

I never ride very fast. If necessary, I walk up the hills. Sometimes I carry high-heels in the basket if I’m going somewhere where I’ll be needing them."

Via the londonPaper

***Right now Girls and Bicycles has a nice 'Pashley 101', her personal review of the bicycle.

Related: Dream Bicycle List

Bridget Bardot on a Bicycle

Loving this amazing, lovely pic of Bridget Bardot riding a bicycle...

Bluest Blue ...Farrah, Bicycle, Sparking Star

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Emporio Armani- Bikes Rule on the Runway...AND Electra Bikes and Celebrities

(photo via ohlalamag)

Yes, this photo is from the recent Emporio Armani Runway Show during Milan's Mens Fashion Week and not some high jinks captured from the latest alley cat race. Over at Cyclelicious you can see a video. Check it out.

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In other fashiony, celeb related news...Electra has a growing list of celebrities who ride their Cruisers and Amsterdams, this according to a little piece featured today on ExtraTV news (note-- there is also an Electra bike giveaway going on at ExtraTV). Anyway I can attest to the list of Celebs mentioned which included Paris Hilton, Elle McPherson, Miley Cyrus, Hillary Duff, Jonas Brothers, Jennifer Hudson BECAUSE I've posted some of their pictures on this very blog through out the year!

Beyonce Rides her Bicycle in Dublin

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So refreshingly breezy looking and oh so inspiring, Yeah it's Beyonce!!!... riding her bicycle around Dublin. What a great photo to get summer started just right. Ride On Beyonce.

Bohemia Bicycle Chic with Isabeli Fontana

(SuperModel: Isabeli Fontana- photocredit: unknown)

(Art Bicycle- on the streets of Santa Cruz via RidingPretty)

Isabeli Fontana, SuperModel!!...What I particularly love in this photo is all the elaborate cut out work of her jacket, then the same intricate cut out detail is replicated in the wrot iron. It also reminds of this amazing bicycle I've seen and photographed here in the streets of Santa Cruz.