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Shapewear – Vintage Lingerie Guide

Glamourdaze — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:22:52 +0000

Shop vintage style shapewear and vintage lingerie. Bullet bras, girdles, and waist cinchers from What Katie Did, Rago , Pip and Pantalaimon and Bettie Page. Introduction to Shapewear Hollywood, during the 1930’s and 1940’s, without meaning to at all, brought about a revolution in the field of foundation wear. The stars didn’t like iron-clad girdles ...

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1940s Fashion – Winter Underwear in 1942

Glamourdaze — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:01:33 +0000

In 1942, the outdoor girl dressed good and warm Winter underwear in 1942. The silhouette for 1940s foundation wear is breathing room for waistlines, beautiful, uplifted bosoms and a return to the straight and narrow for hips. Life Magazine in 1942 reports on ladies underwear for the ‘sports girl’. Photographs by Gjon Mili The female hothouse ...

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1940s Fashion – The Wired Bra

Glamourdaze — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:26:08 +0000

Late 1940s brassieres eliminate straps – Bare shouldered fashions set a problem for foundation garment makers. This has resulted in the development of the strapless, wired brassiere – an increasingly important article of women’s 1940s underwear. This new and useful brassiere contains a single wire which makes an arch over each breast and a small ...

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1940s Fashion – Waist Pinchers 1949

Glamourdaze — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:21:12 +0000

Corsets are back for Diors New Look – Wasp-waists, which began their fashion history 3000 years ago, call for a special garment to keep milady’s figure up to date with the New Look from Paris. Once they used torture instruments of wood and whalebone – today we have satin and lace ! OO-LA-LA! Very saucy ...

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Neiman Marcus Department Store in 1945

Glamourdaze — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 14:19:19 +0000

The Most Glamorous Department Store in America – Daphne : Where did Mrs. Crane go, anyway? Niles : She’s making her annual pilgrimage to the holy land. Martin : I thought Maris was going to Dallas to visit her sister. Niles : That is her holy land. It’s the site of the first Neiman Marcus. ...

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A Brief Visual History of Lingerie

Glamourdaze — Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:44:17 +0000

Sixty Years of Women’s Foundation wear – 1905 Corset Originating from England, this s-curve corset made with floral brocaded silk, silk ribbon, and elastic. The Edwardian corset rested low over the bosom and extended down over the hips. The straight-front, when laced up provided the infamous s-curve which pushed breasts out, stomach in and back ...

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1940s Fashion – 1948 Guide to Foundation wear

Glamourdaze — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:32:35 +0000

1940s Vintage Lingerie advice – Glamourdaze just published a page devoted to the secretive world of vintage lingerie. We’ve chosen excerpts from a book published in 1948 called Foundations for Fashion and provided links to our recommended supplier of faux vintage style undergarments. The guidebook – Foundations for Fashion is an excellent 1940s and 1950s ...

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1940s Winter Foundation Wear Review

Glamourdaze — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:34:27 +0000

Straight from the Underworld – Nov 1940 – 1940s Winter Foundation Wear. Our time travelling beauty correspondent Carolyn Van Wycks reports from November 1940 with a quick perusal of the latest undergarments for ladies from the leading 1940s foundation wear brands. ” THE NEWS from the outstanding authorities on fall / winter foundation fashions this ...

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1940s Wartme Fashion – Laced Corsets

Glamourdaze — Sat, 23 May 2015 22:04:04 +0000

War Restrictions returns the laced corset – 1940s Fashion report – 1942 Women have been wearing them for about 4000 years but it’s less than 30 since they have had the painless variety. To most women, in recent times, wearing a corset meant nothing more that wiggling into a firm girdle, which kindly expanded and contracted ...

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1940s Fashion – How to get Christian Dior’s New Look !

Glamourpost — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:30:01 +0000

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 ...

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