Bernie Dexter Dress Ensemble

Now that you’ve put away the decorations, the tree is down and the December colors of your outfits are already looking a bit – well wintery, lets look at some beautiful fresh dress ensembles for the new year. So after work, hang up your work suit, and celebrate your achievements at a party of your …

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Fleur de Guerre talks to Glamourdaze

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Glamourdaze chats to Fleur de Guerre  vintage style model and authoress of ‘Diary of a Vintage Girl’ The vintage fashion blogosphere is certainly a strange country, populated mostly by women who have a distinct penchant for the ‘feminine’, but with an attitude that says sweetly but clearly ‘mess me with me and you’re dead !’. …

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The History of Makeup – Lipstick Allure

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The History of Makeup – Lipstick Allure by Gabriella Hernandez – founder of Besame Cosmetics. Excerpt from her book Classic Beauty – presented on Glamourdaze.com with kind permission. Lip colors are considered the most widely used cosmetics ever invented. Women who typically do not wear a full face of make-up commonly wear lipstick. From the …

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1940’s Wartime Fashion – Paint your own stockings!

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1940’s War Fashion – Paint your own stockings! Q: What’s a 1940s wife more afraid of finding on her man than lipstick on his collar? A: Leg paint on his back! [Quote from Oak tree Vintage ] The Great Stocking Shortage. Nylon stockings exploded into the average American woman’s life in 1939, when Dupont began …

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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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