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Want to Know a Secret – 1941 Eye Make-up Tips.

Want to Know a Secret? – 1941 Eye Make-up Tips. Back to 1941 now as Hollywood Beauty editor Ann Vernon and actress Peggy Moran show how you can accomplish wonders with your eyes – and learn the secret of mascara application. BRIGHT EYES … Without clear sparkling eyes like Peggy Moran’s, you can’t hope to accomplish a miracle, for cosmetics…

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1950s One Minute Daily Beauty Routines

It Only takes a Minute – 60 Second Beauty Rituals from 1954 –   Diana Day – the beauty editor for Woman in 1954 shares some invaluable basic 1950s beauty tips for maintaining a beautifully feminine complexion. FOLLOW these simple 60 second steps daily and your reward will be everlasting loveliness. One Minute Beauty Makeover Tips – Eyes. a.Brighten eyes each…

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The Dutch Bob Cut – Origin of an iconic 1920s Hairstyle

Silent film star Mary Thurman causes a hairstyle craze with her straight “Dutch Bob” cut in 1920 – Louise Brooks and Colleen Moore often get the credit – but it was actress Mary Thurman who first created hairstyle “waves” with her ultra modern straight page boy bob in the early months of the new decade. Her bob – also known…

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1920s Fashion – Hollywood Spring Wardrobe in 1929

Time capsule 1920’s fashion feature from April 1929 – Katherine Albert reports for Glamourdaze.com. Women the world over are now copying the styles set by today’s stars. Hollywood is giving Paris a run for its money. In this 1920s fashion report you will see the latest frocks,hats, sportswear, afternoon-wear and footwear of the stars. The studio designers go to Paris…

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Photographic Timeline of 1930s Hats – 1930 to 1940.

A fashion history timeline of 1930s millinery – as worn by Hollywood actresses   Surrealism – was the order of the day when it came to 1930s millinery. The most celebrated being designer Elsa  Schiaparelli‘s velvet ‘shoe hat’, an inverted design of a high-heeled court shoe. It was in no small way influenced  by artists such as Salvador Dali, who…

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A 1920s Cloche Hat Timeline – 1920 to 1929

Visual evolution of the diminutive cloche hat of the 1920s – Caroline Reboux’s bell or ‘cloche’ hat of the 1920s took some years to evolve, as this timeline of photographs show – originally published in Hollywood in September 1940.   This timeline features the following Hollywood actresses of the 1920s – Aileen Pringle, Gladys George,Billie Burke, ZaSu Pitts, Irene Rich, Norma…

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1920s Hairstyles – The Bobbed Hair Phenomenon of 1924.

 To bob or not to bob hair – The major dilemma facing women in 1924 – Plus an exclusive interview with Colleen Moore, whose famous Dutch bob caused a worldwide rage. We also get the opinions of many other top Hollywood actresses on the pros and cons of bobbed hairstyles and of getting the big “chop!” 1920s fashion correspondent Carolyn…

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1910 Fashion Images – Les Createurs de la Mode

Photographs from Paris fashion houses in 1910 – Time Travel back to March 1910 – as the ladies of society from Paris, London and New York pay their annual pilgrimage to the fashion salons of Paris to choose the coming seasons wardrobes. These beautiful images from Les Createurs de la Mode bring back to life the women who both made…

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Cannes – The French Summer Fashion Capital in 1920s

‘Modes of the Moment’ Fashion Report -March 1923- 1920s Fashion Report – Glamourdaze.com. Designs by Edward Molyneux, Beer, Jacques Doucet, Premet, Georges Doeuillet and Jenny. La Garconne look reigns supreme. “PARISIAN dressmakers are to be pitied! The foreign buyers tell them that they are short of ‘new’ ideas, and that they have been playing with variations on the same air…

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The Queen’s Couturier

Norman Hartnell’s fashion sketches for the young Elizabeth 11- From his jaw dropping engagement dress worn by the young Princess Elizabeth in 1948 to the 1953 Coronation dress and beyond, the name Norman Hartnell was synonymous with Royal glamour. 1950s Fashion History – from Glamourdaze.com “My interest with fashion began with a box of crayons” Hartnell wrote in his biography…

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