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The Truth about “Ugg” Boots.
Ugg boots were first created by Australian farmers, who used sheepskin to stay warm. As the years went by, many Australian surfers also cottoned on to using them for their warmth-giving properties....
View ArticleCorsets & the Evolving Shape of Women 1900-1920s.
by Sheryl Jaeger The objective of corsets was to improve on the body type of every woman. Emphasis was on the waist. By the 1880s the corset had become an elegant and desirable object in a woman’s...
View ArticleFashion in the Edwardian Era: c.1900.
Women’s Fashion of Edwardian Era: The Period of the Gowns Photographic portraits of Edwardian women’s fashion demonstrates a simplification in fashion from the Victorian era. However, there was more...
View ArticleStylish Dressers from Yesteryear.
Fashion goes round in circles. At least to a certain extent, the fashions of the past will become the fashions of the future. When we look back to photos of the post-war era of 1940-1960, all we see is...
View ArticleFashion photography by Vogue.
Gloria Swanson, 1924. All photographs courtesy of Lumas Gallery. Photograph: Edward Steichen/VOGUE Archive Collection From Gloria Swanson to Kate Moss, desert starkness to urban grit, a new exhibition...
View ArticleDressing Up for the Telephone, c. 1900.
How to Dress When Using Your Telephone, ca. 1900s. These beautiful vintage black and white photograph show young women posed using telephones in the early 20th century. See more Images via vintage...
View Article1950s Men’s Hairstyles.
All I can say as an old Aussie who was a youngster in the 1950s is that I wish our Aussie barbers were as good as these American barbers back then. So I put I put a picture on the front of Vincent D....
View ArticleEdwardian Women & their Gigantic Hats.
Looking at the favourite Fashion Style of Women From the early Years of the 20th Century one feels that women from the Edwardian era favoured very weighty looking-fashion styles, from big gowns to...
View ArticleModeling a Prada dress in a sinking boat.
In the gloaming … Amber Valletta on the Tiber. Photograph: Glen Luchford by Nell Frizzell We had to shut the river Tiber in Rome for this picture. It’s expensive to shut down a whole river, but this...
View Article‘The Roaring Twenties.’
The 1920’s were most popular for the Flapper dress which is easily associated with the “Roaring Twenties”. The Flapper dress had a drop waist, which gave women a more boyish figure which was popular at...
View ArticleOlde Edwardian Style – c.1910.
During the 1910s the Edwardians became more playful and innovative, taking an interest in asymmetrical draping techniques. Corsets and bodices were now solely for supporting the shape as opposed to...
View Article‘The Gibson Girls’& Fashion in the early 1900s.
At the turn of the twentieth century, it was all about Evelyn, Camille, and Irene, the original “Gibson Girls” and the models for the drawings that changed the way America thought about women. Though...
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The Ziegfeld Girls circa 1910-1940.
Alfred Cheney Johnston (known as “Cheney” to his friends and associates) (April 8, 1885 – April 17, 1971) was a New York City-based photographer known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls...
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Funky Platform Shoes – the Past.
Do you remember the ultra funky platform shoes that were all the rage in the 1970s? After their use in Ancient Greece for raising the height of important characters in the Greek theatre and their...
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The Early Hair Dryers from Hell, c.1930s.
Before the invention of hair dryers, women would often attach hoses to the exhaust ends of vacuum cleaners to blow-dry their hair. A woman sits under a chrome-plated hair dryer, 1928....
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Big Hair Hits Munich in the 1960s.
The prize-winning coiffures in a contest in Munich, Germany on 1 May, 1964. They were designed for evening wear and hairdressers at the time said that anyone with a little time could copy them. Image...
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The Beautiful and Charismatic Lilli Langtry.
Lillie Langtry was beautiful, smart, had wit and passion all in one mesmerizing package. Langtry was a stage actress persuaded to go into the acting business by famed writer and poet Oscar Wilde. As...
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Vintage Pics of Strange Beauty Devices, 1920s-40s.
Pictures below describe how terrible beauty care procedures looked like in the 1930s and 1940s. Women now must be happy they don’t have to spend many hours sitting under strange devices or put weird...
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Amazing Photos of Models in Castles & Mansions by Miss Aniela.
“Swan Lake” (2014), all images © Natalie Lennard Photographer Natalie Lennard, who works as Miss Aniela, creates lavish scenes centered around elegantly dressed models. While each image might seem, at...
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A 60 year old Male Fashion Model.
I studied law but never practiced and instead worked in the movie business and advertising. Due to personal reasons I started a new job in April 2015. For the fun of it I decided to grow my beard...
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