1940’s Fashion – A Woman’s Clothing Plan 1947

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1940’s Clothing Plan and Budget 1947 – Now see the lavishly illustrated concise history of 1940s fashion ! 1940’s Fashion – A Young Woman’s Annual Clothing Plan A typical yearly clothing plan for a 19 year old San Francisco woman in 1947. Even in the opulent USA, the average woman of reasonable means, could only …

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Vintage Glamour Tutorial – Mary Stuyvesant 1946

Vintage Glamour Tutorial 1946 A woman’s guide to achieving vintage glamour in the late 1940’s by Mary Stuyvesant aka the infamous Miss Ratherly Stern. Here, Mary explains the secrets to glamour and femininity. Watch the latest vintage glamour tutorial film on our YouTube channel. Also, read the lavishly illustrated concise history of 1940s womens fashion. …

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Vintage Makeup Guide – Archive 1940’s Makeup Tutorial

1940’s makeup Tutorial – Face contouring / Lipstick and Hairstyles. The classic Vintage Makeup Guide to the 1940’s from Miss Ratherly Stern. Transcribed with illustrations.!! The ideal facial contour is supposed to be the oval. But some of us have round faces,square faces or long faces. What can we do to make our faces appear …

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1940’s Fashion – Makeup Guide

Now read a Complete History of 1940’s Makeup – including galleries galore of beautiful imagery. The defined style for makeup in the 1940’s was glamour ! A full luscious red mouth and more prominent eyebrows, getting away from the pencil thin look of the 1930’s.Eye makeup was kept to the minimum with very little shadow. …

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1940’s Fashion – Womens Dress Style after the War

Women’s Dress Codes up to Christian Dior’s New Look – Follow up to Women’s Dress Code of the 1940’s – the War Years.  Now read the full Concise Illustrated History of 1940’s Women’s Fashion – 1940 to 1949. Click on the image below. If you are looking to quickly and easily recreate the 1940’s look for …

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Makeup History – The Makeup Look from 1910’s to 1950’s

1900 Makeup Look Makeup Look 1920’s Makeup Look 1930’s Makeup Look 1940s Makeup Look 1950’s The Vintage Make-up Guide . To get the genuine vintage looks and styles of 1920s make-up, 1930s make-up, 1940s make-up and the 1950s makeup  – visit Vintage Make-up Guides ! MAKE-UP TIMELINE – The Makeup Look from 1910’s to 1950’s …

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Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein

The Three Giants of Cosmetics During the early years of the 20th century, make-up became fashionable in the United States of America and Europe due to the huge influence of Ballet, Theatre and the Movie stars of Hollywood. Chief amongst the make-up wizards who helped develop cosmetics into a global mass market were Max Factor …

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Lipstick Glamour – The History of Lip Makeup

Lipstick Glamour – The History of Lip Makeup A little digging into the history of that popular makeup accessory. While lip rouging has been around for centuries, like the Japanese Komachi beni lip makeup. Lip makeup entered mass production after becoming widely popular when the Lipstick was invented (purportedly) by Maurice Levy in 1915 a …

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1940’s fashion – Womens Dress Code in the War Years

1940s Clothing – Women’s Dress and Style– Now see the lavishly illustrated concise history of 1940s women fashion !! Also you can read a free e-publication World War Two Fashion – by Tia Craig . Just click on image below to download direct to your smartphone,tablet or desktop. Welcome to the main hub to several entertaining posts on …

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