Life photographer Nina Leen captures post war America at Yuletide – In the last four weeks before Christmas – R.H Macy of New York, the worlds largest store, goes through a ‘retailing blitz’. America’s Christmas shopping season officially starts the day after Thanksgiving, and a staff of 14,000 sets about furiously to work on selling …
Christmas Beauty from Besame Cosmetics – Our annual look at the glamorous makeup gifts for Christmas from our friends at Besame Cosmetics. And what a delightful set of treats. If you want to treat your loved one, best friend to a gift of pure vintage glamour, then you can’t go further than Besame Cosmetics Holiday …
Christmas Party Dresses for the Vintage Girl – Well ladies, with the season of snow, red lips and mistletoe coming round the corner, Glamourdaze is taking a break from our time traveling to look at some drool-able vintage party dresses from our friends at 20th Century Foxy. 1930s Charm Dress – Teal Blue My personal …
Glamourdaze video featured in German top 100 tutorials – Late news – if it’s pleasant to hear – is still good news, and we only learned of Glamourdaze’s inclusion last July / August in a unique German exhibition of online video tutorials. Our popular 1969 makeup tutorial film was nominated. Below are some promotional shots …
How Helena Rubinstein, a little girl from Krakow, helped build the 20th Century beauty industry and outsmarted Wall Street. A Day in the Life of Helena Rubinstein Full of thoughts, Helena Rubinstein begins another day with a bath, followed by rubbing liquid powder over her body. She studies her face in the mirror before applying her …
Max Factor at work in studio – A rare vintage make up film from the golden age of Hollywood. The Hollywood make up genius Max Factor gives a young model the Claudette Colbert look. Watch the new AI Colorized Max Factor – the makeup artist
Actress Priscilla Lane learns how to be a salesgirl – 1941 – In Million Dollar Baby – Priscilla Lane plays a department store salesgirl. To get first hand experience she spent a day incognito at Sears, Roebuck & Co’s big general department store in downtown Los Angeles. At 8.15 she punched in, went to the …
1930’s All in One Dress – by Artist Russell Patterson – Well known stylist Russell Patterson designed this ‘all in one’ outfit for actress Joan Crawford. He is best remembered for his famous magazine covers in the 1920’s along with artists such as Coles Phillips and John Held Jr. This Modern Screen review from November …
Suburban Fashion comes to Manhattan – 1954 – Because the term suburban has long been associated with the unfashionable country mouse, US clothes designers up to now have focused instead on the more promising city slicker. But with 30 million Americans living in the suburbs and with incomes 70% higher than the US average, this …
Here we present the latest feature on our archive Vintage Fashion channel on YouTube.A beautiful 1940s fashion feature in lush color shot by the great cinematographer Jack Cardiff – this rare piece of film is provided by the British Council. Jack Cardiff is best known for his influential colour cinematography for directors such as Powell …