vintage fashion

Lavishly illustrated history of vintage fashion, makeup, and hairstyles for women in the 20th Century

Inside a 1920s Chorus Girls Dressing Room

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Inside a 1920s Chorus Girls Dressing Room – by a Chorus Girl in 1926. A-line-of-1920s-chorus-girls-from-the-show,-‘The-Girl-From-Cooks’.-1927 Many famous actresses started their professional careers as dancers in a chorus line including Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers,Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck,Paulette Goddard,Bette Davis, Joan Crawford,Marion Davies,Shirley MacLaine,Rita Hayworth,Louise Brooks,Joan Blondell, Betty Grable – the list goes on. The …

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British War Time Christmas Beauty Tips for Women in 1941

 British War Time Christmas Beauty Tips for Women in 1941 A touching and a unique record taken from the 1940’s British fashion periodical Good Taste – Dec 1941. The writer envisions various date scenarios and dishes out advice on the appropriate clothing, hairstyle and makeup to wear for these very special occasions with their soldiers …

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Besame Cosmetics – The Purr-fect Red Lipstick !

Today Gabriela Hernandez of Besame Cosmetics helps you find the perfect Red lipstick from their beautiful range of vintage inspired lipsticks. ” First let’s figure out if your skin tone is warm with yellow undertones or pink with cool undertones! Then pick a color to match your skin tone. For warmer tones – try Carmine, …

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1920s Style Make-up Application – Vintage guides to download

1920s Make-up Application Techniques – Original guide for download. A rare vintage 1920s beauty guide with instructions on the makeup application techniques of the flapper era. You’ll adore it. It’s a beautifully illustrated and restored e-book from an original beauty guide for women from 1925 by wealth socialite Marjorie Oelrichs.Packed with feminine advice for young …

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1940s Christmas Fashion during the Blitz

1940s Christmas Fashion – Party Frocks for Dec 1941. First published in December 1941 issue of Good Taste Magazine United Kingdom ” It’s Christmas 1941 and Britain is at war. but that won’t stop women from going glamorous and feminine for the festive season. No bombing raids nor threats from Hitler shall stop us from …

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Lady About Town – Vintage Style Winter Ensemble

Continuing our browse of Modcloths vintage style clothing for Christmas, let’s look at this lovely Winter ensemble of a Tundra style coat, worn with a Cossack hat, wine petunia heels and heart design tights. Plenty by Tracy Reese Turn to the Tundra Coat You’re busily piecing together film clips on your laptop when the captain …

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Modcloths Holiday Stylebook – Grab a Vintage bargain for Christmas

Pamper yourself this Christmas and drool over Modcloths stunning vintage style clothing, dresses, shoes,intimates and outdoor wear . To make it easy – and less guilt ridden – to click on their buy buttons, they have produced a clever Holiday Stylebook for you to flip through. You can check their dress ensemble for the day …

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The 1930s Golden Age of Glamour

The 1930s –  The Golden Age of Glamour for Women’s fashion. Often regarded as some sort of stop gap between the 1920s and the 1940s, the 1930s fashion era is often overlooked as a significant decade for style. Despite the Depression, it is remembered as the era of escapism, glamorous Hollywood starlets adorning billboards and …

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1930s Fashion – The Definitive sourcebook

1930s Fashion – The Definitive Sourcebook Long overdue and very welcome comes this visual treat for all 1930s fashion fans out there. If you are not yet sold on the glamor and Art deco resplendence that was 1930s style, then this book will give you an epiphany! Published by Goodman Feill for £30 – it’s …

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