1940s Fashion – How to get Christian Dior’s New Look !

Corsets and padding for Diors New Look of 1947- 1940s Fashion – from Glamourdaze.com – Two 1940s British models attempt to achieve Christian Dior’s New Look by wearing the latest 1940s shape-wear -From the Pathe’s film archive. With half of London still in ruins, and food and clothing rationing still enforced, this was more of a pipe dream for the average…

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1910s Fashion – The World’s First Fashion Photo shoot.

April 1911 saw the first cited 20th Century fashion photo shoot – and some of it in color! – Fashion History from Glamourdaze.com – 1910s Fashion – The World’s First Fashion Photo shoot. The Spring collection from the then hugely famous Paul Poiret was published by the French magazine “Art et Decoration” in an article called L’Art de la Robe (…

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1950s Fashion – Actual Color Swatches of Dior and Balenciaga

Forty-five 1950’s couturiers featured in archive style forecast magazine. 1950s Fashion from Glamourdaze.com According to FITs excellent style blog Material Mode, back in the 1940s and 1950s, L’Officiel de la Couleur des Industries de la Mode and their sister publication, Cahiers Bleu, served as fashion trend forecasting publications for the fashion industry. Several pochoir prints are re-produced including this fascinating…

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1940’s Fashion – Pajama styles for a warm night in 1945

Carolyn Van Wycks 1940s fashion report for Glamourdaze.com – Silky luxurious 1940s pajamas for 1940s women from designers like Tina Leser in the winter of 1945. Incentive: the war is over, and our men are home. Result: a woman in her element! There’s a kind of luminous look about her, as though all the lights had gone on quite suddenly….

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1940s Fashion – British Women get rid of the Turbans!

New post war hats from London in 1945 – After six years of war, years of factory turbans, snoods and caps, women want glamour back in hats! – The Associated Millinery Designers of London are putting Britain on the 1940s hat fashion map of the world. Formed together in a group, they are co-operating in the furthering of our export…

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A Mad Men Makeover – by Top Hollywood Makeup Artist

7 Steps to a 1960s Mad Men Makeover – Top Hollywood make-up artist Eddie Senz, from the 1930s to the late 1960s  helped make-up a host of glamorous stars from  Marlene Dietrich to Elizabeth Taylor . His early beauty tutorials published in Mademouselle in 1935 are among the first of their kind. He shares his genius with Family Circle in…

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Become a Beautiful Woman – 1950s Makeup Tips

Become a Beautiful Woman – 1950s Makeup Tips. – from American Beauty – 1950’s guide to more glamorous living. For a woman, every new season is a time for renewal. Winter is no different, and is an ideal time for you to bring out your warm inner feminine beauty. ( ed these simple 1950s makeup  tips come in that languid…

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The Golden Age of Haute couture – 1947 to 1957.

High fashion’s greatest era – 1947 to 1957. A 1950s couture dress gallery and a free downloadable 1950s dress pattern – Scroll to end of article for dress pattern details: It has been described by some as the golden age of couture – that post war era when fashion returned to opulence and glamour between the years of 1947 –…

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1920s Hairstyles – Colleen Moore changes her Coiffure in 1929

Colleen’s in search for a daring new hairstyle – Carolyn Van Wycks reports from New York – Its 1929 and after Colleen Moore completes first stage play “On the Loose” she plans to change her 1920s hairstyle dramatically to herald in the 1930s! And what an adventure this will be for Colleen, whose Dutch Cut has endured for many years…

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1930’s Beauty Secrets – Hollywoods Most Beautiful Necks !

Poets have praised them, artists have painted them, sculptors have modeled them – now learn the Hollywood beauty secrets that helped maintain the beautiful throats and neck lines of their most glamorous stars  – Time traveling 1930s beauty correspondent Caroline Van Wycks reports from the Hollywood firmament in 1937. As far as Hollywood necks go, there are long ones and…

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