Glamorous Maureen O Hara models 1940s Autumn dresses – Step into Fall … like Maureen O Hara, wearing a two piece rayon silk in the news making violet blue. the peplum blouse, draped to make you figure beautifully in any gathering, ties on one side. An Edna Vilm design from Saks Fifth Avenue. Shoes – …
Enjoy the sun, sand and sea … and bring your lipstick and mascara! – 1940s beauty report – Denise Caine for Glamourdaze.com There can be something pretty bewitching about a girl on a sunny beach, as these pictures of Ann Rutherford ( Andy hardy / Gone with the Wind star and soon to be seen …
WPA measures US women up for standard dress sizes – 1940s Fashion Report for Glamourdaze – Jan 1940. USA At the L.Bamberger & Co store in Newark, New Jersey, stylish stouts, junior misses, half size women, extra talls, and all other types of women born equal but definitely not in equal proportion, are now being …
1940s fashion report from Gwenn Walters – Merle Oberon, Marlene Deitrich, Ann Sheridan and Irene Dunne model a day fashionable day suits from February 1940. Merle Oberon is the crisp “suit-type” who likes to travel “light” and is apt to turn up at El Mirador in Palm Springs or at the new Arrowhead Springs Hotel …
Carolyn Van Wycks 1940s fashion report for Glamourdaze.com – Silky luxurious 1940s pajamas for 1940s women from designers like Tina Leser in the winter of 1945. Incentive: the war is over, and our men are home. Result: a woman in her element! There’s a kind of luminous look about her, as though all the lights …
New post war hats from London in 1945 – After six years of war, years of factory turbans, snoods and caps, women want glamour back in hats! – The Associated Millinery Designers of London are putting Britain on the 1940s hat fashion map of the world. Formed together in a group, they are co-operating in …
A lovely little vintage fashion film clip from 1943 – looking at up coming 1940s fashions in new dresses, accessories and hairstyles from girls ages 11 to 17. We dug this out of an old Universal newsreel. Enjoy!
Hollywood stars model the latest modes for Christmas 1941 – Gwenn Walters reports for Glamourdaze. QUESTION: What would a girl like for Christmas? Answer: A hostess outfit like this one designed by Earl Luick and worn by the demure Joan Bennett of 20th Century Fox. An all over quilted coat of brown and white checked …
1940s Fashion – Cute day suits for sunny Autumn days. Time travelling vintage fashion columnist Carolyn Van Wycks gives us a peek at two cute day suits for early autumn 1940 style worn by actress Irish Meredith.The early 1940s fashion silhouette was well established. Pretty Iris Meredith, now appearing in Columbia’s “The Return of Wild …
The Neiman Marcus Department Store – 1940s Fashion. The photos featured here were taken between 1939 and 1945 by Life photographers Nina Leen and Alfred Eisenstaedt and curated by the online Life Photo Archive “I dreamed all my life of the perfect store for women. Then I saw Neiman Marcus, and my dream came true.” …