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 …
It’s all about trim slim suits from Paris – Paris was rich with rumours of radical changes just before the fall fashion showings – frightening predications of dropped hemlines, wasp waists, even padded hips! Then Paris fooled the prophets. Skirts stayed short, waists remained sensible and hips were left alone. The Chanel suit will be …
American Women Winter Fashion on the Eve of War – 1941 US Fashion report by Catherine Roberts for Glamourdaze. Here they are … the winter fashion for 1941/42. During the summer, thousands of you told your favourite department store exactly what you wanted in the way of fashion details in your Fall /Winter wear, and apparently this …
Ginger Rogers feet are big news in across the globe – Ann Boyd’s 1930s’s fashion report for Glamourdaze.com When Ginger Rogers was a child her great ambition was to earn enough money to have all the shoes she ever wanted. She loves them still! Sometimes she buys a beautiful pair first and then plans her gown …
A peek into a secretarial school in 1951- The girl above is trying to look the very picture of a perfect secretary. Dressed in a conservative suit, she wears both a hat and gloves and sits quietly with her hands folded as she applies for a job. She learned this correct approach at the Wright MacMahon …
Exclusive peek at the famous lipstick assembly line – In 1947 Life magazines photographer Herbert Gehr paid a visit to the famous Tangee Lipstick manufacturing plant and brought us these rare images. The Tangee Lipstick Factory. Lipstick is manufactured by combining perfumes, color pigments and oils with a wax base, as shown in these pictures …
Anne Shirley poses in popular Fall 1936 dresses – 1. Very becoming to Anne’s coloring is this classic 1930s dress in a new soft blue, shot with metal threads. Note the smart low neck, so generally flattering, and the jeweled clasp. 2. So popular are borders in the new fashions that this dress is important! …
1941 Winter Wardrobe info-graphic – Edith Head- This October Edith Head, designer for Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard and Madeleine Carroll who shows you how to have a wonder 1940s wardrobe as distinctive as any Hollywood star’s. I’ve often felt that most women make as many resolutions at the beginning of autumn as they do …
by Hollywood beauty editor Ann Vernon Luscious Miss Eva Gabor kindly posed for us to show us the five steps to her 1940’s beauty routine – which shows how she reclaims her beautiful July complexion in the cold months of winter. 1. ( above) Eva applies a tinted paste to conceal sallow tan and freckles, keeps make-up …