1940’s in fashion for women in WW2. Trends, utility dresses, seamed stockings, peplum’s, shoulder pads, and the post war New Look.
Women in World War 2 left us an iconic and beguiling style which is forever celebrated in movies, books and magazines. Rationing encouraged women to “make do and mend”. With all resources going to the war effort, Fabric shortage meant longer skirts and less revealing evening dresses. Austerity was reflected by a more austere fashion in the early 1940’s. Makeup and hairstyles however never looked better.
Browse the 1940’s fashion trends as worn by women in that troubled decade. Find inspiration for your next 1940’s style dress, victory rolls hairstyle.
Now you know the highlights, dive in to our archive of 1940’s fashion history. Find out how women in WW2 lived, worked, served in the forces and of course dressed.
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 …
Create a 1940’s Hairstyle in 60 Seconds. Tia Semer of Glamour Daze shows you another neat 1940s hairstyle trick. How to do a hair roll in 60 seconds. You can watch the How to do a Hair Roll in 60 seconds video. 12 Steps to a 1940’s Hair Roll That’s all ! ©Glamourdaze Vintage 1940’s …
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 …
Corsets and padding for Diors New Look of 1947- 1940s Fashion – from Glamourdaze.com – Two 1940s British models attempt to achieve Christian Dior’s New Look by wearing the latest 1940s shape-wear -From the Pathe’s film archive. With half of London still in ruins, and food and clothing rationing still enforced, this was more of …
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!
Our time traveling fashion correspondent Gwenn Walters reports for Glamourdaze from December 1942 to reveal what 1940s fashions the dishy Rita Hayworth was wearing. ” Doesn’t Rita look smart in this new winter wonder-worker – a smooth black dress featuring the new ‘peg-top drape’ and a high style belt of black cord with a rich …
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 …