Norma Jean Vs Marilyn Munroe – You decide.Personally we think it’s a no brainer. Marilyn was a fantasy, magnificently played by Norma Jean Baker.Above are images of the young Norma Jean and below of Marilyn Munroe. Finishing off with some images taken near the end of her short life, which show a more worldly wise …
By the 1910s, womens fashion moved away from the Gibson Girl corsetted s-bend silhouette look of Edwardian Fashion, to a softer more flowing look with the new popular asian and oriental styles of the likes of Paul Poiret. A tunic over a long underskirt became the norm until the advent of the 1920’s. This little …
1940’s X Ray Beauty Yes – isn’t science marvellous. Now a woman can be x-rayed into radioactive beauty nirvana. Back in the 1930’s and 1940’s, the new radiology invention was used – a little over used perhaps, for shoe fitting with the Shoe Fitting Fluoroscope. Shoe Fitting – X Ray Fluoroscope. This film shows a …
1950’s womans beauty salon Here we have an archive film exploring the mysteries of a 1950’s woman’s beauty salon, and though still run by men – it was the 1950’s after all – there is a noticeable absence of the usual patronizing narrator in this film compared to many of the 1950’s beauty instruction films …
1920s Women shot in Autochrome Color – Not very often does one come across color imagery of women’s fashion and dress looks from the 1920’s, but the National Geographic Stock Online have some stunning color photographs for sale of late 1920s women from different parts of the world – all taken around the same time …
Technicolor Fashion from 1930 Presenting some of the ‘ latest ‘ Paris fashion creations from early 1930’s. 1930s hats, frocks, evening wear and suits by King’s El Centro, California, 1931.Originally broadcast by Fashion Features Studios. 1930’s Spring suit – worn by Miss Phyllis Crane 1930’s Fashion Show – Colour Archive Film Notice the tailored cutaway …
Source – Wikipedia Jane Russell RIP Jane Russell passed away today at the sprightly age of 89 years.She shot to fame in Howard Hughes film The Outlaw, but is best remembered we think today in herdazzling performance alongside Marilyn Munroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.To paraphrase Marlene Dietrich – She was some kinda Dame ! Regarding …
A Rockette in training – Life Image Archive Radio City Music Hall – The Rockettes and Corps De Ballet Radio City Music Hall In the middle of the Depression – a theatre unlike any other in the world opened its doors -the brainchild of the billionaire John D. Rockefeller, Jr and built by RCA [ …
Stockings for the war effort Uncle Sam decided that stockings would be put to much better use in the war, than as women’s apparel. Namely – for converting into powder bags which were used to propel missile projectiles in US Navy Guns. How romantic is that !? In 1942, depots appeared everywhere appealing to women …
A typical day of a 1940’s housewife The 1940’s was great era for fashion and glamour, and during the war – it seemed to herald a new age for women’s freedom, but from 1946 – women who were starting out as a housewife for the first time, discovered that there was a strict gender biased …