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 …
Booklet of cartoons of leading French actresses in 1900 – Leonetto Gappiello from Italy and based in Paris is considered to be the father of the 20th Century Art Deco Poster. He succeeded lithographers like Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Cheret, and Alphonse Mucha to become the leading advertising poster designer in 1900’s Paris. His technnique moved away …
1930s Beauty Report by Ann Boyd – Model June Vlasek – After a long day on set, June Vlasek bathes her eyes in warm water. Then she uses an eye wash and follows up with a dash of cold water. if she has more time she lies down with cool wet pads of cotton over …
A Sneak peek at a Hollywood stars wardrobe – 1930’s Fashion Report for Glamourdaze.com. For the recent marriage to actor Dick Powell, the delectable Joan Blondell ordered a most elaborate trousseau. The outstanding evening gown you see here, is of dusty green pebbly silk with an extreme halter neck line. Silver spangles outline the décolletage …
Stand-up Collars – Flare Skirts – Tunics – Dolmen Sleeves – Fashion takes a hint from the picturesque Cossack – 1930’s fashion report by Jeanne duBois Shades of the Cossack and the Russian gypsy – according to what we hear over the ether, fashions have certainly gone Russian with a vengeance this year. There is …
The unnatural shape reappears in fashion – The custom satin and lace corset here sold by Saks Fifth Avenue, nipping in at the waist and flaring out at the hips represents the American woman’s willingness to compress, pad and otherwise distort her natural body into unnatural shapes dictated by high fashion. This year’s New Look …
Step by step – Shirley MacLaine learns the Geisha Look – How to keep a man happy in Japan, an ancient and complicated art, and the attractive American star Shirley MacLaine, intently studying a real geisha at her make-up, has come to the source of that art to learn it. She is studying the geisha …