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1930s Fashion – The second coming of Hat Veils

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Life Magazine peeks behind stylish veils in 1937 – This year, while the women of the Middle East are still rejoicing in the fairly recently acquired freedom of showing their faces, more women of the west than ever before will cover their features with veils. No one knows why, but it is the fashion, and demand has gone up tenfold…

1940s Fashion – White Collar Girls

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Daily Wardrobes of Four working women in 1940 – In the early months of 1940 – Photoplay takes a look at the daily dress codes of four typical working girls in the tinsel city of Hollywood land 1.The Fashion Publicist – Daily Wardrobe in 1940 Subject: Eleanore Roberts At Work- During office hours, Eleanore, the perfect young fashion executive, wears a…

1940s Beauty Guide – Exercises for the Bust

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Beauty or Bust – 1940s style ! – From Makeup & Beauty – A 1940s Guide ( compiled by Hollywood make-up gurus Ern and Bud Westmore) The female bosom has always been a symbol of health and beauty. The shape, size, firmness and erectness of the breasts, also their relation to the size and contour of the body are all…

1940s Hairstyles – The Sidesweep Craze of 1945

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Tilted hats create side-swept hairdos – 1940s hairstyles bend to suit the new hat designs of the mid 1940s Off-to-one-side! It’s the most talked of fashion silhouette for the winter season! here are some of the new side-angled hats and their companion fashions in sideswept hairdos. The hats swing down on one side, and your coiffures must be created to…

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Hollywood Diets of the Stars – Vintage Secrets

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Glamourdaze

New book reveals secrets of the stars – In the golden age of Hollywood glamour – before celebrities’ least flattering photos were routinely splashed across tabloid papers – the great stars of the silver screen were portrayed as goddesses – visions of flawlessness. The eating habits and daily fitness routines of the likes of Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow,…

Rationing to Ravishing – Fashion from the 1940s to the 1950s

Posted on January 23, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Evolution of Women’s Style in the 1940s and 1950s – A Vintage Fashion Exhibition curated by the Museum of Vancouver features stunning haute couture clothing garments by some of the great fashion designers from Paris, London, Berlin and New York, which pretty much covers the pole points of couture during that era. The exhibition is comprised from collections by fashion collectors Ivan…

1930s Fashion – Claire Trevor’s well dressed winter suit of 1933

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Glamourdaze

This stylish 1930s suit is fashionable – BECAUSE – the street ensemble ” smoke screen” is made of the new wide-ribbed crepe in the new and desirable shade of eel-gray that well dressed women are choosing for autumn and winter wear BECAUSE – of the smart high neck-line achieved by the removable jabot trimmed with black fox fur. BECAUSE –…

1930s Fashion – Hollywood Winter Frocks -1934

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Glamourdaze

1930s Fashion report by Seymour – Fashionable Daywear – Lest you think that the fox cape is part of Sally Blane‘s costume above, I must tell you that it is her own, worn for the occasion in her new picture ” Advice to the Lovelorn”. Bright contrasting vestee and sash give vivid accent to the dark silk. Amusing tubular buttons,…

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Vintage Sartorialist – Street Fashions filmed in 1938

Posted on January 15, 2015 by Glamourdaze

Mesmerising movie stills from another era – 1930’s Street fashions captured on film in 1938 Long before New York’s Scott Schumann – known as The Sartorialist – made street style snapping a web phenomenon, long before the media became obsessed with high street chic – in the sleepy South Dakota town ( now a city) of Britton way back in 1938…

100 + Years of College Girl Fashion

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Glamourdaze

A photographic trip back through time – College girl fashions are an often overlooked source of both style and female trends.Whether they start in the schools or have been adopted over the years from fashion periodicals, young women heading to college in 2015 may well be putting as much effort in to their style and attitude as they will be…

1930s Fashion – The second coming of Hat Veils

1940s Fashion – White Collar Girls

1940s Beauty Guide – Exercises for the Bust

1940s Hairstyles – The Sidesweep Craze of 1945

Hollywood Diets of the Stars – Vintage Secrets

Rationing to Ravishing – Fashion from the 1940s to the 1950s

1930s Fashion – Claire Trevor’s well dressed winter suit of 1933

1930s Fashion – Hollywood Winter Frocks -1934

Vintage Sartorialist – Street Fashions filmed in 1938

100 + Years of College Girl Fashion

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