1940’s Fashion – Womens Dress Style after the War

Women’s Dress Codes up to Christian Dior’s New Look – Follow up to Women’s Dress Code of the 1940’s – the War Years.  Now read the full Concise Illustrated History of 1940’s Women’s Fashion – 1940 to 1949. Click on the image below. If you are looking to quickly and easily recreate the 1940’s look for …

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Dress for your Shape – A Vintage Guide

The Female Body Shape – Which are you ? A vintage tutorial on how to dress correctly for your body shape.Everything you need to know about what kind of figure you have, and what kind of figure you might like to have ! The irreverent Trinny and Susannah have identified 12 different body types – …

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Glamour Daze – An Image Archive of Vintage Fashion and Beauty

Glamour Daze – An Image Archive of Vintage Fashion and Beauty Festive Greetings to all my friends ! The vintage fashion and glamour channel. Educational videos from public domain archives like the Prelinger Archive.Makeup Tutorials,Dress,and Hairstyles from the flappers of the 1920’s,to the art deco styles of the 1930’s,and up to the glamourous 1940’s,and 1950’s.Celebrate …

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Makeup History – The Makeup Look from 1910’s to 1950’s

1900 Makeup Look Makeup Look 1920’s Makeup Look 1930’s Makeup Look 1940s Makeup Look 1950’s The Vintage Make-up Guide . To get the genuine vintage looks and styles of 1920s make-up, 1930s make-up, 1940s make-up and the 1950s makeup  – visit Vintage Make-up Guides ! MAKE-UP TIMELINE – The Makeup Look from 1910’s to 1950’s …

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Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein

The Three Giants of Cosmetics During the early years of the 20th century, make-up became fashionable in the United States of America and Europe due to the huge influence of Ballet, Theatre and the Movie stars of Hollywood. Chief amongst the make-up wizards who helped develop cosmetics into a global mass market were Max Factor …

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Lipstick Glamour – The History of Lip Makeup

Lipstick Glamour – The History of Lip Makeup A little digging into the history of that popular makeup accessory. While lip rouging has been around for centuries, like the Japanese Komachi beni lip makeup. Lip makeup entered mass production after becoming widely popular when the Lipstick was invented (purportedly) by Maurice Levy in 1915 a …

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1930’s Fashion – Womens Shoe Styles

 See also Gorgeous Shoe Fashions ( Vintage 1936 Film) 1930s Fashion – Glamour of Womens Shoes In the early twentieth century women demanded more comfortable, flat-soled shoes– that is until the roaring twenties when higher hemlines encouraged visible, elaborate, high heeked and slender Louis heels. The Depression during the 1930’s highly influenced shoe fashion in …

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