1940s Fashion – Hedy Lamarr – Style Icon

Hedy Lamarr – originally from Austria – was once dubbed the most beautiful woman on film. She exhibited a style that was both unique and also expressed the fashions of the time better than most of her fellow actresses. Not only a talented and glamourous star – she was also an inventor.She co patented a missile defense frequency hopping technology…

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Vintage 1940s Makeover Film – What NOT to wear !

Another helping of Miss Ratherly Sterns vintage 1940’s fashion makeover for young women.Courtesy of the Prelinger Archive.

1940’s Fashion – Women serving in the War

Also Watch our tribute to Rosie the Riveter or this beautiful little film tribute to the British Women in uniform during the Second World War. These recruitment posters say it all. While the nose cones of many US planes depicted glamourous Hollywood bombshells, there were however brave women overcoming centuries of gender bias who joined these organisations to serve their…

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