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1954 Women’s College Fashion

Posted on August 25, 2016 by Glamourdaze

Archive film of college style in 1950s Pennsylvania – Opened in 1867, Cedar Crest College is a private liberal arts women’s college devoted to training young women in the art of living. Set on a spacious knoll of wooded land on the outskirts of Allentown. It has been consistently voted one of the top women’s colleges in the US. It…

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Elizabeth Hawes – The Fashion Anarchist

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Glamourdaze

Visionary designer forerunner to Dior – In 1938, a young American female fashion designer named Elizabeth Hawes, an author, a journalist, a political activist and union organiser with the foresight of Chanel and Dior and a razor sharp wit that made her the Dorothy Parker of fashion, published a book called Fashion is Spinach, a long forgotten fore runner of The Devil…

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1940s Fashion – Cigarettes and the Slim Silhouette

Posted on August 19, 2016 by Glamourdaze

When tobacco tied in with 1940s fashion allure – Whilst the War Production Board had begun pushing sensible restrictions in women’s clothing through its L-38 Apparel order, silhouettes had tended toward the slim side in tobacco advertising since the mid 1930s, particularly in Marlboro cigarettes, a brand, though chiefly remembered for its cowboy image of the 1960s, was originally marketed as…

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Backstage Photos of 1954 Paris Fall Collection

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Glamourdaze

Rare photos of the 1954 Paris Fall Collection opening – Paris in the late summer of 1954 was about as glamorous as it could ever have been, with the like of Dior, Givenchy, Fath, Balenciaga and Balmain all vying for attention. And Life Magazine’s Mark Shaw was there to capture the elite designers and their even more elite customers in…

Girls Who Wear Glasses – 1940s Beauty Tips

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Glamourdaze

Vintage advice for bespectacled girls 1943 – We generally flee like mad from statistics, but the other day we ran smack into some figures on women’s eye-glasses that sent us dashing out to find out more about them. Do you know that you and some 25,000,000 of your sisters in the United States wear glasses? And that the way you wear…

1940s War Fashion – Black Women serving in WW11

Posted on August 2, 2016 by Glamourdaze

Rare Images of African American Women in Service – Researched by Barbara Lewis Burger- National US Archives It is difficult enough to find photographs of ordinary African Americans who served in the US Forces in the 1940s, and extraordinarily difficult to find images of women who served, as many thousands did. Most of these photographs were picked from the holdings…

1940s American Fashion – Colour Film 1942

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Glamourdaze

Colour 1940s Fashion from AV Geeks & Prelinger Archive – In full colour from 1942 – a full colour 1940s fashion showcase film made by Butterick to promote their war era dress patterns magazine. Digitised and uploaded to the Prelinger Archive by those great collectors of all things educational in old film – AV Geeks. You can buy some unique dvds or just…

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My Love My Umbrella

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Glamourdaze

An illustrated ode to the ubiquitous ‘brolly’ “We moved under the umbrella out of the street light, fumbling for certain footing between the tree roots. ‘Will you hold the umbrella?’ She took the imitation leather with the white stitching in her hands. ‘Kiss me.’ She leaned across the steel between us. ‘Do you think we should?’ I repeated.’ It was the rain,…

Girl in the Jitterbug Dress

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Glamourdaze

Glamourdaze meets author Tam Francis World War Two, jitterbug dresses, swing dancing, swanky cocktails, and vintage living are hinted at in THE GIRL IN THE JITTERBUG DRESS back clover blurb! Everything a Glamourdaze gal could want in a summer read all wrapped up in a compelling fiction novel written especially for vintage enthusiasts. Successful vintage lifestyle blogger, swing dance teacher,…

1940s Fashion – The Second New Look of 1949

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Glamourdaze

Gamine Silhouette of 1949 turns heads American women, battle-scarred survivors of the 1947 revolution, when the New Look took over, are hearing disquieting reports from the fashion front: Having made over their figures for the New Look, was it possible that they were going to have to do it all over again? The fashion edict from Paris sounds unmistakable. “The…

1954 Women’s College Fashion

Elizabeth Hawes – The Fashion Anarchist

1940s Fashion – Cigarettes and the Slim Silhouette

Backstage Photos of 1954 Paris Fall Collection

Girls Who Wear Glasses – 1940s Beauty Tips

1940s War Fashion – Black Women serving in WW11

1940s American Fashion – Colour Film 1942

My Love My Umbrella

Girl in the Jitterbug Dress

1940s Fashion – The Second New Look of 1949

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