Lavishly illustrated history of vintage fashion, makeup, and hairstyles for women in the 20th Century
Its interesting to remember that Pilates, now a hugely popular guide to good posture was developed in the 1940’s and named after Joseph Pilates. Women of the 1940’s simply had to master correct posture. There was no option. Corset makers like Spencer did their bit to help, but there is no better alternative than simply …
The street fashion and hairstyles of everyday women in the 1930’s from a unique film by Ivan Besse shot in the small South Dakota town of Britton in 1938 The Wall Street Crash had a huge impact on women’s fashion in the 1930’s. Lots of women took up sewing and the Women’s Institute became famous …
Vintage Glamour Tutorial 1946 A woman’s guide to achieving vintage glamour in the late 1940’s by Mary Stuyvesant aka the infamous Miss Ratherly Stern. Here, Mary explains the secrets to glamour and femininity. Watch the latest vintage glamour tutorial film on our YouTube channel. Also, read the lavishly illustrated concise history of 1940s womens fashion. …
Decorate your vintage kitchen with some beautiful Vintage Fashion Art and Retro Humour Calendars Vintage Calendars and Retro Calendars have become increasingly popular in recent years.With the success of Mad Men, the glamour advertising art of the 1940’sand more particularly the 1950’s have created a huge surge in interest in those halcyon days. In the …
A charming and slightly far fetched little movie short of a glamourous Hollywood party at the famous Ambassador Hotel.. It features some of the biggest stars of the day, wearing the latest fashions. Some lovely examples of 1930’s womens hairstyles In the 1930’s the world was gripped by the Great Depression and very often, as …
A feast of archive vintage fashion clips from the 1920’s to the 1950’s showing the finest in lingerie design. With music by the Olympic Dance Orchestra from 1927.This is the first of several films which will showcase the diversity of womens fashion from the halcyon days of glamour.
1900’s Fashion I personally feel that that belle epoch period of 1890’s to 1914 in fashion is unique. Those wonderful days when women wore morning dresses, afternoon dresses, evening gowns, formal dresses . of course it helped to have an army of servants running after you.It was also the time when women began to wear …