1940’s Vintage makeup Guide A rare vintage makeup tutorial from the 1940’s. Enjoy ! A more in depth transcription of this makeup guide can be found at 1940’s Makeup Revisited Head over also to 1940’s Fashion – Makeup Guide Or treat your vintage heart or a loved one to an original 1940’s Make-up and beauty …
1950’s Hosiery – The Golden Age of Hosiery in my humble opinion ! 1940’s Hosiery 1930’s hosiery 1919 Hosiery Ad – artist – Coles Philips A quote from 1950 issue of Good Housekeeping, found on The Vintage Connection Thirty–five years ago hosiery was strictly utilitarian—underwear, in fact, since no nice lady permitted it to show. …
A very sweet image from Rachel who has a great vintage fashion sense.Second Life is quite a hangout for fashion designers.Don’t do it myself,but head on over thereand have a look !
Working for Vogue for more than a decade in the early postwar years, photographer Clifford Coffin produced some of the magazine’s most elegant fashion pictures.Enjoy !!
My latest video on YouTube.Hollywood glamour from the 1920’s !A womens’s fashion film featuring prominent actresses of the silent movie period, modeling the latest trends in 1920’s fashion.This film shows some beautiful vintage womens clothing,hairstyles and hats.
Hollywood Fashion in the 1920’s This is a beautiful color film from 1928 featuring some female stars of the day in sparkling up to date styles.By the late 1920’s fashion designers were very forward looking. The Cloche hat was queen – whichhas become the iconic image of that decade.The single biggest change in womens fashion …
193019291928192719261925192419221921 The wonderful and generally forgotten Hollywood Diva of the 1920’s.She’s largely and unfortunately remembered for her role in Whatever happened to Baby Jane[ remember the eyebrows ? ] ..though it is a great movie.Here she is in all her Flapper glory in a timeline of photos from 1920 to 1930.Enjoy.Images courtesy of Joan Crawford …
Helmut Newton Helmut Newton’s growing reputation as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured a commission to illustrate fashions in a special Australian supplement for Vogue magazine, published in January 1956. He won a twelve-month contract with British Vogue and he left for London in February 1957, leaving Talbot to manage the business. He …
These photos depict a very common style of the 1950’s in glamour photography.Photographs that were selected were mostly of girls with hour glass figures. There were however no modelling agencies and this made it difficult in terms of finding professionals. Most of the support staff of make up crews, lighting, costume and props was also …
The Second World War left women craving for glamour, style and swathes of fabric where scraps of material had once existed. Dior’s full skirted and waisted designs fulfilled all the early dreams of the feminine woman in the early 50’s. As a new, more liberated society evolved, women moved toward freer more relaxed clothes and …