Lavishly illustrated history of vintage fashion, makeup, and hairstyles for women in the 20th Century
1930’s fashion film featuring vintage swimsuits, beach pants, beach skirts and play suits. Remastered and colorized by Glamour Daze. Watch Beautiful Vintage Swimsuits | 1930’s Fashion Top 1930’s Beach Fashions and Swimsuits The very latest thing. A printed linen halter top with navy wide ribbed body. Over this is a linen cape. Next, a one …
There was much more to 1920’s fashion trends, than flapper slang, and dancing to the Charleston ! What to wear and where to buy. We put together a vintage carousel slide projection, which takes you through all the popular fashion trends of the 20’s. You can read the concise illustrated history of 1920’s fashion. But …
Shop vintage style shapewear and vintage lingerie. Bullet bras, girdles, and waist cinchers from What Katie Did, Rago , Pip and Pantalaimon and Bettie Page. Introduction to Shapewear Hollywood, during the 1930’s and 1940’s, without meaning to at all, brought about a revolution in the field of foundation wear. The stars didn’t like iron-clad girdles …
Ern Westmore‘s hair styling do’s and don’ts for face shapes. Miss Oval, Miss Square, Miss Round, Miss Oblong and Miss Triangle. As you know, the oval face shape has been declared the ideal of feminine beauty by artists who portray it in marble, words or music. Now if yours is not the oval shape, don’t …
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High school senior girls describe their experiences as a Junior Miss.1970’s beauty pageant film showcases 1970’s fashion, 70’s hair and makeup styles of young women. Beauty Pageant Film 1970 It’s tempting to look on the beauty pageant with a jaundiced eye now, but in the 1970’s, as in the decades before, it was difficult for …
Rare early technicolor fashion film from 1930, showcasing the end of the flapper girl era. The drop-waist dress is replaced by a closer fitting slip dress, a natural waist and lower hemline. The look is still very much the flapper dress, but we can see the changes already. Flapper Dresses | Color Film 1930 We …
Follow these hand washing steps used by medical vintage nurses in the 1960’s, and help yourself and others avoid the dreaded Covid-19 Coronavirus. In the 1960’s, people were less hysterical about the reality of viruses. Folks still remembered a time before antibiotics. The current thinking for good hand washing hygiene is a 20 second hand …
Some lovely 1950’s teenage girl fashion. The story of Jean, the new girl on campus. She faces social rejection because of hurtful gossip. A Teenage Girl’s Experience of Gossip in a 1950’s High School A 1950’s educational social guidance film on the damage that spreading gossip and rumors can cause. As in the How to …
How to do Victory Rolls in minutes. Easy to follow tutorial to help you create one of the iconic 1940’s hairstyles worn by American women in WW2 How to do Victory Rolls Video During WW2, the popular victory roll pin up hairstyle was playfully adopted by many women. The term victory hair was coined by …
Seventeen Magazine answers these FAQ’s by teenage girls in the early 1960’s. How to be pretty, how to style yourself. How to be more attractive to boys. Seventeen Magazine was considered every teenage girls best friend. Seventeen’s editor in chief Enid Haupt answers the most commonly asked questions by teenage girls. How to be pretty. …
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