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1940s Style in Eye Popping Technicolor

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Glamourdaze

Leave her to Heaven 1945 – John Stahl’s classic noir movie Leave her to Heaven, stars possibly the best dressed ever femme fatale – Gene Tierney. It was recently restored with the help of director Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation and has been rightly claimed as a forgotten masterpiece. It’s a feast for fans of 1940s clothing, hairstyles and makeup looks and…

A Brief Visual History of Lingerie

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Glamourdaze

Sixty Years of Women’s Foundation wear – 1905 Corset Originating from England, this s-curve corset made with floral brocaded silk, silk ribbon, and elastic. The Edwardian corset rested low over the bosom and extended down over the hips. The straight-front, when laced up provided the infamous s-curve which pushed breasts out, stomach in and back arched. Although pioneered by female…

1950s Fashion – Spectacle Glory

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Glamourdaze

Pathe News 1950 fashion report – A toast now to the women and where more attractive than this school for models, where we’re just in time for a lesson in the art of specmanship. Demonstrating this comparatively new art in using spectacles as a fashion accessory is top couturier Ronald Patterson. With this sophisticated town suit in hat and fox fur,…

Vintage Hollywood in Long Island

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Glamourdaze

Classic film journalist Raj Tawney interviewed- Raj Tawney just turned 30 years-old but has the soul of generations preceding him. At Cinema Arts Centre in Long Island, NY, he has the privilege of welcoming Hollywood legends and screening classic films to audiences, young and old. Raj also works as a multi-media producer/journalist exploring the history of movies and the individuals…

1940s Fashion – The Hattie Carnegie Story

Posted on August 25, 2017 by Glamourdaze

Profile of an American Fashion Icon 1945 – With a “look”, a little suit and a knowledge of all the angles, Hattie Carnegie has risen from poverty to be absolute boss of a $6,500,000 dress business. Nobody has ever been able to define style to the satisfaction of anybody else. It might be called a means of expression; one of the…

1930’s Hollywood Faces – Beauty Unmasked

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Glamourdaze

All about the Mouth and Eyes 1936- If Hollywood lipsticks could talk, what tales they would tell! The women of the screen rouge their lips along natural lines, always accenting the ‘lower’ lip, not the upper. In some magical way this adds character and a certain dramatic accent that many feminine faces lack! Witness Katherine Hepburn, whose first film…

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1940s Fashion – 1948 Guide to Foundation wear

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Glamourdaze

1940s Vintage Lingerie advice – Glamourdaze just published a page devoted to the secretive world of vintage lingerie. We’ve chosen excerpts from a book published in 1948 called Foundations for Fashion and provided links to our recommended supplier of faux vintage style undergarments. The guidebook – Foundations for Fashion is an excellent 1940s and 1950s lingerie and foundation wear tutorial…

1920s Fashion – Modes from Paris 1928

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Glamourdaze

Art Gout Beaute Magazine – While the latest summer frocks are enjoying their brilliant but ephemeral existence at the Deauville, Le Touquet, and La Baule casinos, and while these fashionable seaside resorts are covered with a bewildering display of colours, the dressmakers are showing the first of the winter fashions to foreign buyers. This provides a piquant contrast between the…

1950 Guide to being a Fashion Model

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Glamourdaze

A Career in Modeling by Helen Fraser- Excerpts from Assignment in Modelling. Here are some photographs of a typical day at the Barbizon School for fashion models in 1950 in Florida. The school was founded originally as a ‘charm school’ in 1935. Barbizon training scene pictures Bettellen in semi-ballet stance with legs widespread to feature the skirts fullness. “She must…

1940’s Fashion Wardrobe – 1942 Summer Styles

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Glamourdaze

All things to all women – 1940s fashion report by Wilhela Cushman Fashion editor of Ladies Home Journal If you simply love a long coat to wear with many summer dresses, your favorite could be this sophisticated green over a printed 1940s frock. (1) The same style dress alone with (2) a big green hat and (3) green pumps, is pretty…

1940s Style in Eye Popping Technicolor

A Brief Visual History of Lingerie

1950s Fashion – Spectacle Glory

Vintage Hollywood in Long Island

1940s Fashion – The Hattie Carnegie Story

1930’s Hollywood Faces – Beauty Unmasked

1940s Fashion – 1948 Guide to Foundation wear

1920s Fashion – Modes from Paris 1928

1950 Guide to being a Fashion Model

1940’s Fashion Wardrobe – 1942 Summer Styles

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