Vintage advice for bespectacled girls 1943 – We generally flee like mad from statistics, but the other day we ran smack into some figures on girls who wear glasses, that sent us dashing out to find out more about them. Do you know that you and some 25,000,000 of your sisters in the United States wear …
Rare Images of American Black Women in WW2 Service. Researched by Barbara Lewis Burger- National US Archives It is difficult enough to find photographs of ordinary black women in WW2 who served in the US Forces in the 1940s, and extraordinarily difficult to find images of women who served, as many thousands did. Most of …
Colour 1940s Fashion from AV Geeks & Prelinger Archive – In full colour from 1942 – a full colour 1940s fashion showcase film made by Butterick to promote their war era dress patterns magazine. Digitised and uploaded to the Prelinger Archive by those great collectors of all things educational in old film – AV Geeks. You can buy …
An illustrated ode to the ubiquitous ‘brolly’ “We moved under the umbrella out of the street light, fumbling for certain footing between the tree roots. ‘Will you hold the umbrella?’ She took the imitation leather with the white stitching in her hands. ‘Kiss me.’ She leaned across the steel between us. ‘Do you think we should?’ I …
Glamourdaze meets author Tam Francis World War Two, jitterbug dresses, swing dancing, swanky cocktails, and vintage living are hinted at in THE GIRL IN THE JITTERBUG DRESS back clover blurb! Everything a Glamourdaze gal could want in a summer read all wrapped up in a compelling fiction novel written especially for vintage enthusiasts. Successful vintage …
New Gamine Figure of 1949 turns heads American women, battle-scarred survivors of the 1947 style revolution, when the New Look took over, are hearing disquieting reports from the fashion front: Having made over their figures for the New Look, was it possible that they were going to have to do it all over again? The …
British Wartime Tutorial from 1942 – If you want a new hat, now that hats are rationed, there are ways and means. Turbans are the means and Anne Edwards – fashion editor of Woman shows us some of the ways. Method 1: Having tied the knot on top of the head, you can see how easy …
Become a Colorist ! – Glamourdaze talks to illustrator Wendy Piersall, whose recent publication The Masters of Fashion Illustration recreates a forgotten era of art nouveau in fashion illustration, and what’s more – you get to colour it in ! Why did you want to draw an adult coloring book about vintage fashion? I have always loved …
Clothes for Daytime and Playtime July 1932 1930s Fashion Report for Glamourdaze. Adrienne Dore is 5 feet 4 . Her golden blonde curls and green eyes furnish the basis for a number of interesting color combinations here. She’s slim but by no means thin, likes to wear clothes that make her look taller. She buys …
The Top 1940s Hollywood Beauties – Bearing in mind that the color barrier had yet to be broken, the look of the typical 1940s woman on screen was of course ‘white’. While we have picked our favorites here and not in order of preference or beauty, you will probably feel there were many that should …