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1930s Fashion – Carole Lombards Wardrobe in June 1932

Carole Lombard explains what she loves about fashion ! – Virginia T Lane – 1930s Fashion Report for Glamourdaze.com Ten to one if you met Carole Lombard on a desert island, draped in fig leaves dashingly trimmed with red berries, you’d say: ” Now there’s chic for you! I must have a dress like it!” I know I would. Because this…

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The Sisters G – Mirror Image Beauties – June 1930

 What two peas can be more alike than the Sisters G? – Modern Screen features The Sisters G –  two unlikely stars of Paul Whitemans talkie revue ” The King of Jazz”. Direct from Paris – these two rubber legged Dutch bobbed beauties have become unexpected stars in their own right after their dazzling performance. Karla ( or is it…

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1930’s Swimwear of the Stars !

Glamourdaze reviews the latest styles for summer 1933- Besides having hair that’s the envy of all the other girls in Hollywood, Ginger Rogers has a bathing suit that can be seen from one end of Maliby to the other. Why shouldn’t she look happy? And Joan Blondell says nobody’s going to get more Vitamin D this summer than she is….

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1930s Fashion – Hollywood bids farewell to the Short Skirt

Skirt hems drop dramatically in January 1930 – What did Hollywood most glamorous women think of the new longer skirt fashion of 1930 which heralded the beginning of the austere era? Photoplay Reporter Lois Shirley reports for Glamourdaze and shares the opinions of nine of the outstanding women of the screen – Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll,…

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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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1930s Fashion – Screen Stars show their glamour

Follow my blog with Bloglovin 1930’s Fashion report from Hollywood. for Glamour Daze from Carolyn Van Wycks in 1937 – Virginia Bruce. For Spring days and city streets Virginia Bruce chooses a pne-piece frock of wood green wool crepe. A brown velvet belt is put firmly in its place by a gargantuan safety pin of dull gold. The hat matches…

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1930’s Perfumes – The Science of Seduction

What was the scent of the 1930s woman? – A 1930s Beauty Report for Glamourdaze.com from Carolyn Van Wycks in Hollywood 1937. Explore the popular perfumes of the 1930s woman. Do you choose your 1930s parfum for the exotic sensuality of Guerlains “Shalamar” or the suggestive name of Lanvin’s “My Sin”? Or have you the technique of the siren who…

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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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1930s Fashion – Hollywood Styles for Christmas 1935.

Time traveling fashion reporter Carolyn Van Wycks reports from Hollywood’s Yuletide from 1935 – and gives us a glimpse of what some of the glamorous starlets are wearing for the festive season. No mention of who the designers are but then actors and designers were all slaves to the Hollywood studios! Gertrude Michael – a new Paramount player, wears a…

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Color Photos of Parisian Women – 1930s and 1940s

A selection of Parisian women from a recently published selection of photos – taken by French photographer Andre Zucca. Though not a card carrying Nazi, he was quite happy to sell his photos taken with rare Agfacolor film, to the German magazine Signal. After the liberation of Paris he was arrested but never charged. He spent the remainder of his…

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