From the cloche hat and berets to Schiaparelli’s shoe hat
Romantic winter modes for 1931 – We asked actresses Marian Marsh, Loretta Young, Ruth Hall and Estelle Taylor and Karen Morley to model what the fashionable young woman will be wearing to college this winter. The girls went to Manhattan to select their favourite outfits to stroll Park Avenue in. Loretta Young models a fur coat …
Clara Bow and Joan Crawford model their choices – Nov 1930 – Russia is the inspiration of the smart suit worn by Joan Crawford. Made in the Russian manner of Forstmann’s Zenita, a novelty fabric, the suit reveals cartridge trimmings on the sleeves and at the front of the belted-in knee-length coat. All this lends a …
October fashions from Hollywood in 1938 – Edith Head designed this bottle-green and beige herringbone tweed suit for Joan Bennett to wear. The green note of the tweed is repeated in the velvet trim of the long topcoat, the cashmere sweater and suede accessories. the stitched velvet acorn cap is also of tweed. To the …
Life Magazine peeks behind stylish veils in 1937 – This year, while the women of the Middle East are still rejoicing in the fairly recently acquired freedom of showing their faces, more women of the west than ever before will cover their features with veils. No one knows why, but it is the fashion, and …
Mesmerising movie stills from another era – 1930’s Street style captured on film in 1938 Long before New York’s Scott Schumann – known as The Sartorialist – made street style snapping a web phenomenon, long before the media became obsessed with high street chic – in the sleepy South Dakota town ( now a city) of …
A Sneak peek at a Hollywood stars wardrobe – 1930’s Fashion Report for Glamourdaze.com. For the recent marriage to actor Dick Powell, the delectable Joan Blondell ordered a most elaborate trousseau. The outstanding evening gown you see here, is of dusty green pebbly silk with an extreme halter neck line. Silver spangles outline the décolletage …
Hollywood Tries White Magic for Summer 1934- 1930s Fashion By Seymour for Glamourdaze.com THERE’S a childish lilt to Mary Carlisle‘s white gob hat with its navy blue streamers, but her reefer coat is nautical sophistication to its last nickel button! Mary has chosen her accessories skilfully – she matches the blue braid on her coat …
A fashion history timeline of 1930s millinery – as worn by Hollywood actresses Surrealism – was the order of the day when it came to 1930s millinery. The most celebrated being designer Elsa Schiaparelli‘s velvet ‘shoe hat’, an inverted design of a high-heeled court shoe. It was in no small way influenced by artists …
Here’s a short glimpse in to the glamorous past. 1930’s women browsing a department store.
1930s Fashion -The French Beret replaces the Cloche. By 1933 the iconic Cloche hat which was so dominant in the 1920s was replaced by exciting new French styles. The beret – not exactly anything new to the French – was certainly a novelty for many women in the USA and others European countries. Not all …