Vintage Sartorialist – Street Fashions filmed in 1938

1930's Street fashions captured on film in 1938

Mesmerising movie stills from another era – 1930’s Street style captured on film in 1938 Long before New York’s Scott Schumann – known as The Sartorialist – made street style snapping a web phenomenon, long before the media became obsessed with high street chic – in the sleepy South Dakota town ( now a city) of …

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100 + Years of College Girl Fashion

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A photographic trip back through time – College girl fashions are an often overlooked source of both style and female trends.Whether they start in the schools or have been adopted over the years from fashion periodicals, young women heading to college in 2015 may well be putting as much effort in to their style and …

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1930s Fashion – The Year of Wearing Trousers – 1932

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The aftershock of Marlene’s infamous Tuxedo premiere in 1932 1930s Fashion Report for Glamourdaze.com Marlene Dietrich certainly started something when she appeared at the opening of  The Sign of the Cross, wearing a masculine tuxedo, wing collar, soft felt hat, mannish topcoat, and a pair of mannish patent leather shoes! If this controversy over trousers …

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1930s Fashion – Hollywood bids farewell to the Short Skirt

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Skirt hems drop dramatically in January 1930 – What did Hollywood most glamorous women think of the new longer skirt fashion of 1930 which heralded the beginning of the austere era? Photoplay Reporter Lois Shirley reports for Glamourdaze and shares the opinions of nine of the outstanding women of the screen – Gloria Swanson, Joan …

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