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Street fashion in the 1930’s – Archive film

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Glamourpost

The 1930’s Sartorialist – Ivan Besse. Did New York’s Scott Schuman – better known as The sartorialist – perfect the art of time travel? This rare film showing the vintage dress and hairstyles of ordinary women on the street in the 1930’s certainly qualifies as a sartorial. Filmed by Ivan Besse in the small South Dakota town of Britton in…

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Lost Images of London and Paris Street fashions in 1906 .

Posted on June 28, 2012 by Glamourpost

Lost photographs of Edwardian London and Paris Street fashions in 1906 . by Edward Linley Sambourne – The Edwardian Sartorialist A wonderful set of fashion images found via Retronaut from The Library Time Machine, the Kensington Library blog curated by Dave Walker. A leading Punch cartoonist at the time – no doubt Linley Sambourne took photos to help him with…

Charlotte and Jane – Irish vintage fashion house

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Glamourpost

1940s and 1950’s retro inspired Spring Summer clothing collection from Ireland. Continuing our current Irish flavour for vintage fashions, and following up on our wonderful find of an archive color fashion film of Sybil Connolly from 1957, we’re taking a quick peek at this years Spring Summer Collection 2012 from Charlotte & Jane, the Kinsale based bespoke fashion house run…

Sybil Connolly – Ireland’s First Great Fashion Designer

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Glamourpost

The name Sybil Connolly returned to the fashion press recently when actress Gillian Anderson turned up to the annual Bafta Awards wearing a vintage 1950’s pleated handkerchief linen dress. One of the Irish designers most famous innovations – uncrushable linen – was a fashion sensation in the late 1950’s. Glamourdaze have recently unearthed a forgotten 1950’s fashion film featuring Sybil…

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Lost Vintage Fashion Film in Color – Ireland 1957

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Glamourpost

Top Irish fashion designer Sybil Connolly stages a dress show in 1957. This little gem is published courtesy of Richard Jeffs of the Baim Film Collection. A very very rare color fashion show shot in widescreen Eastman color by Harold Baim. It features possibly the most famous Irish fashion designer of her time and certainly the first major Irish name…

1930’s Color Fashion Film

Posted on June 15, 2012 by Glamourpost

A re posting of an archive 1930’s fashion film clip from our YouTube vintage fashion film archive. It was filmed during the making of the Marx Brothers ‘Animal Crackers‘ and features some of the women extras in the film, wearing fashionable clothes from 1930. Note the new lower hem lengths that began to typify the early 1930s fashion look. It…

Evolution of Women’s Dress – 1914 to 1929

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Glamourpost

Here we present an early fashion ‘retrospective’ from 1929 looking back at how women’s fashions had evolved in the 15 years spanning from 1914 to 1929. No other fashion era displayed such a change in women’s styles than the years which followed the First World War up to and through the decade of the 1920’s. The 1914 sequence features clothes…

Rare 1950’s Fashion Film from Ireland

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Glamourpost

Ireland in the 1950’s does not exactly ring loud on the fashion Richter scale, largely due to its depressed economy and the effect of its isolation. Irish women rarely wore trousers and America seemed light years away in its opulence and style. A wedding was the one chance an Irish girl could sparkle and the make do and mend philosophy…

Edith Head – Hollywood’s Infamous Costume Designer

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Glamourpost

A study of Vintage fashion on Film through the costume design of Edith Head A small diminutive woman, famous for her Anna May Wong inspired crop and signature sunglasses – Edith Head may not have been a fashion visionary, but she knew how to concoct screen glamor like nobody before her or since. With a staggering 8 Oscars and 35…

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1940’s College Girls Vintage Summer Fashion Show

Posted on May 28, 2012 by Glamourpost

This charming vintage summer fashion feature comes from 1948. It is the conclusion to a series of 1940s dress making films [ which we will post shortly ] featuring a group of earnest students on a home economics course, led by an enthusiastic girl named Betty. Original footage from the great archivist Rick Prelinger. Other 1940s fashion posts: Easy Guide…

Street fashion in the 1930’s – Archive film

Lost Images of London and Paris Street fashions in 1906 .

Charlotte and Jane – Irish vintage fashion house

Sybil Connolly – Ireland’s First Great Fashion Designer

Lost Vintage Fashion Film in Color – Ireland 1957

1930’s Color Fashion Film

Evolution of Women’s Dress – 1914 to 1929

Rare 1950’s Fashion Film from Ireland

Edith Head – Hollywood’s Infamous Costume Designer

1940’s College Girls Vintage Summer Fashion Show

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