1940s Winter Fashion – Rita Hayworth – Dec 1942

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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 …

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1940s Fashion Report – Winter Styles for Christmas 1941.

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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 …

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Fashion in 1940 – Autumn Wardrobe of the Stars.

Deanna Durbin, Myrna Loy reveal their Autumn outfits for 1940. Originally published in Sept 1940’s Photoplay by fashion editor Gwenn Walters. The USA’s entrance into the Second World war is still over a year away. Deanna Durbin poses in 1940s College fashions. The perfect little arbiter of good taste in feminine clothes is of course …

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1940’s Fashion – Spring Frock Parade

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1940’s Fashion Parade – Spring Dresses from the 1942 Sears catalog After the cold bitter months of winter, women across America eagerly scanned the juicy spring catalogs for some nice frock inspiration. Here’s a selection of spring dresses from the Sears Catalog of 1942. They were grim times for women at home, many of whom …

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1940s Fashion – Deborah Kerr models the 1942 British Utility Dress

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Deborah Kerr models the 1942 British Utility Dress Typical Utility dress of pale blue light woolen, it has double-breasted bodice and pleats in the skirt. Spectator model at 62 shillings and 10d. Everything about it is top flight except the price . Originally published in Picture Post 1942. Text transcription copyright Glamourdaze.com 2013 Look in …

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Fleur de Guerre talks to Glamourdaze

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Glamourdaze chats to Fleur de Guerre  vintage style model and authoress of ‘Diary of a Vintage Girl’ The vintage fashion blogosphere is certainly a strange country, populated mostly by women who have a distinct penchant for the ‘feminine’, but with an attitude that says sweetly but clearly ‘mess me with me and you’re dead !’. …

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