Modern Print Monday: Irene Lentz

Irene Lentz's tropical costume for

Ginger Rogers in 1933's Flying Down to Rio

Irene Lentz (1901-1962) succeeded Adrian as MGM's lead costumer

and did over 160 movies as Irene from 1933 to 1962.

This two-color, over-scaled leaf print still looks fresh.

Costumers like Irene and Adrian popularized

modern design with movie goers, one reason

modern prints became the standard in the 1930s.

See a website devoted to Irene Lentz here:

http://www.irene-lentz.com/

Feedsacks a decade or two later.