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Fashion Freedom in Pre-War Afghanistan

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Glamourdaze

When Miniskirts and Hijabs went together – ‘As a girl, I remember my mother wearing miniskirts and taking us to the cinema. My aunt went to university in Kabul.’ Horia Mosadiq – Amnesty UK Three decades of war, invasion and religious uprisings have sent Afghan women back into a dark age, not unlike women during past fundamentalist Christian eras. The…

Hollywood Beauty Comes From Within

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Fundamentals beauty hints – 1929 1920s Makeup report by Anne Van Alstyne Not so long ago I talked to a Director of motion pictures. He a lot to say about beauty. ” A pretty face is just – a pretty face, ” he said “It gets by, but it doesn’t get far. if there’s not something underneath, something that shines…

Hollywood’s Most Perfect Noses -1930

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Glamourdaze

The secrets to a beautiful nose – 1930s beauty report by Rosalind Shaffer. How often does one hear that expression to describe a close race? Then there’s the story about the horse that stuck out his tongue and won the race. Modify this a little and you have a true story. The girls of Hollywood tip-tilt a perky nose, languidly…

Vintage Swimsuit Fashion

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Hollywood bathing suits and pyjamas 1930 – The newest in backless and sideless bathing suits demonstrated by Hollywood’s loveliest ladies. Above left Virginia Bruce wears a suit of red and white – the perfect eye catcher for the California sun. Stripes will be worn with plain trunks as also indicated by the new bathing suit of Anita Page on the…

1930s Fashion – Hollywood Swimsuits – 1932

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Glamourdaze

A peek at Hollywood‘s favourite swimwear – First up is Joan Blondell and the up and coming Bette Davis who both appear in this years Three On a Match. Here Joan sports a playsuit, and doesnt she look sporty? Bette wears a fashionable green and white one piece. Now off down to Malibu where the lovely Joan Blondell is the…

Lets Make-up – 1950’s Style !

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Glamourdaze

1950s Makeup Retrospective by Naomi J. Shaw – for Glamourdaze. Poodle skirts, pin-up girls, and winged eyeliner! The 1950s were a time of retro fun and fashion that still drive undercurrents today with nostalgia for the “good old days” of American bandstand music at the local diner or drive-in movie theatre. Fifties fashion and makeup is classic and elegant, and many…

1950s Fashion – Swimming Caps in Vogue

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Fashionable swimwear accessories for 1950 – The flattering rubber headgear in these images by Loomis Dean of Life magazine, represent a new skirmish in the battle of the bathing cap manufacturers vs. Esther williams. Miss Williams some time ago depressed the industry by proving a woman with wet hair was in fact ” still beautiful”, provided her hair was long…

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1940s Fashion – US War Restrictions on Dresses

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Glamourdaze

USA War Restrictions on clothing 1942- See the lavishly illustrated concise history of 1940s womens fashion dress and style. Uncle Sam, disguised as Stanley Markus, of Dallas department store Neiman Marcus, one of America’s great fashion stores, last week assumed the role of 1940s war fashion designer. In a sweeping order affecting all women and girls’ outerwear, the WPB, of which…

1940s Fashion – Men lose their Pants to the Women

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Women go ‘slack-crazy’ in 1942 – As men are being warned that two pants suits, vests and trouser cuffs will soon only be a memory, women are breaking out in a rash of pants! High school girls on their way to school, office workers in first-aid classes, city women shopping, factory girls, all of them are now wearing slacks. That…

Pin Up! The Movie – The All American Girl

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Reclaiming the art of the Pin up – We all know the style! – pin curls, wiggle dresses, 1940s era bullet bras, seamed stockings, cat-eyed make-up and redder than red lips! The recent explosion of interest in vintage fashion – in particular the era spanning from the 1930s to the 1950s has brought with it a revival of the pin…

Fashion Freedom in Pre-War Afghanistan

Hollywood Beauty Comes From Within

Hollywood’s Most Perfect Noses -1930

Vintage Swimsuit Fashion

1930s Fashion – Hollywood Swimsuits – 1932

Lets Make-up – 1950’s Style !

1950s Fashion – Swimming Caps in Vogue

1940s Fashion – US War Restrictions on Dresses

1940s Fashion – Men lose their Pants to the Women

Pin Up! The Movie – The All American Girl

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