1910 – Paris Summer Fashions – amusing review.

Its summer 1910 and the Los Angeles Herald reviews the newest gowns. By A.T Ashmore Selecting gowns for the summer outfit involves far more thought, time and patience than can be realized by the uninitiated in the mysteries of women’s dress,and this season’s fashions will tax to the utmost all those qualities best adapted to …

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1940s fashion – Vogues Summer Makeup guide 1947.

Vogues Summer Face Guide for 1947. It’s summer – at-least in the northern hemisphere, and if you’re a young woman in 1947, you’ll be scanning vogue magazine for the latest advice on makeup looks for those balmy days ahead. The Golden complexion. This is the sort of look a face might wear under the brightest …

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1910 Hairstyles – New Coiffures of the Summer Girl.

Hairstyle fashions for young women in the summer of 1910. As bewilderingly reported by Andre Dupont in the August edition of McCalls Magazine in 1910. It would certainly seem as though the fashionable hairdressers had determined that a woman’s head should attract attention to her appearance at the first glance, and in truth so conspicuous …

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1940’s Fashion – Swimwear Styles of the Stars – June 1940.

1940s swimwear designs. The dressmaker suit is trumps in the new ultra-swim worthy offerings that can either go to sea – or be seen! Deanna Durbin, who’ll lead the eagerly-awaited “Spring Parade”, likes this one featuring a swing skirt and a halter that fastens in front, where the blue and red stripes are manipulated to …

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1930’s Fashion – Hollywood Beauty Tricks 1

The Hollywood Beauty Shop – by Carolyn Von Wyck. The latest 1930s makeup and hairstyle tricks of the stars from June 1932. Florine McKinney, exponent of brushing the hair for beauty, shows you the proper brush to use. The left brush has deep, flexible bristles that will penetrate the hair, cleanse it, polish it. A …

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Great Gatsby Lipstick – Besame’s 1920s Deco Collection.

Art Deco Collection from Besame Cosmetics. With the cinema world besotted at present with the new version of The Great Gatsby – what better reason to doll up for the occasion. Gabriella of Besame Cosmetics offers their famous Noir Red Lipstick – the perfect 1920s lip shade. Just one coat gives full coverage for a …

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Charlotte Fiell – Vintage Fashion Archaeologist

Leading authority on 20th Century fashion and design – Charlotte Fiell talks to Glamourdaze. Last year while browsing in the famous Blackwell’s bookstore in Oxford I was riveted to one spot and eventually one comfortable sofa (Blackwells is my kinda book shop) leafing through two thickly illustrated and sumptuous books by Charlotte Fiell and Emmanuelle …

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