1930s Fall Fashion – Hollywood’s Best Dressed

Top Costume Designers fall style 1938- by Gwenn Walters 1. Contrast costumes are headline news in Hollywood’s fall fashion picture. Barbara Stanwyck wears one of olive green and brown created by Royer. The jacket covers a short-sleeved, collarless frock that closes to the waist with large self covered buttons. A gold tassel chain loops through buttonholes in the narrow belt…

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Three Evening Frocks – Margaret Livingston 1926

Gamine or Robe de Style Evening dresses – Margaret Livingston is truly a city girl. Someone whose personality reflects the shimmering lure of silk, the subtle enticement of style. Dress1. The ever changing modes of fashion have glorified many types of figure over the years, but this year – the short skirt ( left) the enhancing a slim youthful figure…

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1940s Fashion – Fall Suits for 1947

When leaves fall – you want a fall suit – Francis Rafferty models a suit to meet the first cold snap. It’s a crisp wool sharkskin with a trio of pocket flaps and you’ll love it from the moment you pull it on, and wear it till spring ! Grey or tan ! By Zimco. To the right, Francis poses in…

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1930s Fashion – Fall Styles for 1938

Autumnal dresses and shoes for cold days ahead – Daytime Dresses: To the left above, a darling outfit, the wool plaid and the cut of the sleeve make this Star maid dress something fresh and exciting to wear. the sleeve, a modified dolman, has deep armholes forming part of the shoulder and waist. The trimming for the dress on the…

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The 1970s Makeup Look – 5 key Points

The era of Cream Shadows and Lip Gloss– by Besame Cosmetics Gabriela Hernandez Read more in Gabriela’s book Classic Beauty – The History of Make-up The 5 Key Points of the 1970s face 1.Shimmer Shadows are used on the eyelids with mascara on the top and bottom lashes. 2.Eyebrows are kept natural, brushed, and tamed with ‘clear’ mascara. 3.Light liquid formulas…

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1960s Fashion – Paris Fall Collections of 1968

Paris decrees black as the big color – This year, Paris designers have decided it is not the season to be giddy. there are no high-jinks or low jinks – about hemlines, and except for Yves St Laurent, who is pushing pants for city wear, little commotion of any kind. The mood is haute sobriety and the dominant colour is…

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Make-up Advice to Flappers 1925

By 1920s beauty artist Violet Dare – The appropriately named “Miss Dare” dishes out makeup advice to flappers “make-up moods” and “occasion make-up”and “Make-up to Hollywood types”. Remember that most womens faces are their own fault ! They want to be beautiful, yet they so often allow themselves to be limited by what they think they were born with. They don’t…

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Iconic 1920s Hairstyle – The Pringle Shingle

Aileen Pringle‘s Mannish Bob in 1925 – Who would have thought, when bobbed hair first came into vogue, that there would be so many variations of it? The mere conventional bob was at that time [1919] thought dreadfully extreme, but what would have been said if the shingle of today could have been seen, particularly the closely clipped variety, that to…

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1930s Fashion – Karen Morleys Girl next Door Style

The Woman Maketh the clothes in 1932- “Be nonchalant.” That’s the fashion creed of fast rising Hollywood starlet Karen Morley. In other words, Karen chooses her clothes with one effect in mind, a ‘careful’ carelessness. If you think that’s easy to do, you’re all wrong. It’s just as difficult, it requires exactly as much thought and attention, to achieve that appearance…

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1920s Hairstyles – The Bob to Suit Your Type

Hollywood Hairstyles for 1925 – With so many wide variations of the bob haircut to choose from, a girl has a hard time these days deciding just what particular style suits her best. A study of the modes worn by various screen actresses might be helpful, for they have the benefit of so much expert advice and criticism that they are…

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