“Fashion in the Roaring 1920s”.

February 23, 2017, 12:35 pm

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Photos of Women in Evening Gowns during the 1920s.

The 1920s is one of the most impressive periods for female fashion.

Here is a collection of gorgeous photos of women in their evening gowns during this era.

 

See more images via vintage everyday: Fashion in the Roaring Twenties – 36 Gorgeous Vintage Photos of Women in Evening Gowns during the 1920s

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“1950s Women”.

February 27, 2017, 5:22 pm

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Black and White Vintage Portraits of 1950s Women.

 

A collection of black and white vintage photographs of beautiful women living and enjoying life in the 1950s.

See more images via Vintage everyday: 44 Black and White Vintage Portraits of 1950s Women

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The Truth about “Ugg” Boots.

March 14, 2017, 2:27 am

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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. Although popular in America, most Australians consider them too dowdy to be worn outside the house. So how did they get the reputation for being fashionable in the US?

When the boots landed on American shores, a company named Decker decided to copyright them, and after a marketing blitz in which some celebrities endorsed the product, they became a runaway hit. Decker got greedy, and quickly started trying to shut down Australian manufacturers of ugg boots, for using the now-trademarked name.

To the Australian manufacturers the claim was ludicrous, as they had been selling the boots for many years already.

The Australian manufacturers took their claim to court, explaining that “ugg” was actually just a slang word for “ugly,” and thus the trademark was invalid. Fortunately for the Australians, the court sided with them.

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1964 Big Hair Coiffures hit Munich.

March 14, 2017, 3:13 pm

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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 Credit: Photograph by AP Photo

Source: 1964: The World 50 Years Ago – The Atlantic

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“Horrible Old Beauty Devices”.

April 20, 2017, 12:00 am

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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 things on their faces.

Permanent hair procedure. Germany, 1929

Blow-drying, 1920s.

See more Images via vintage everyday: 15 Unusual and Bizarre Beauty Devices in the 1930s and 1940s.

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1940s Fashion Hairstyles.

April 29, 2017, 2:35 am

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Lauren Bacall

The 1940s was really a glamorous time for hairstyles.

Rita Hayworth

Many movie stars including Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Rita Hayworth… with their wavy and curly hairstyles that were the popular styles of the 1940s.

Carole Lombard

See more images via vintage everyday: 16 Glamorous Vintage Photos of American Actresses That Defined ’40s Hairstyles

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Why Men’s Fashion in the 1970s Should Be Forgotten.

April 30, 2017, 7:45 pm

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Here Are Some Really Good Reasons Why Men’s Fashion in the 1970s Should Be Forgotten Forever.

It was a time when it was completely acceptable for men to wear bellbottom pants, fluffy shirts, strange shoes, safari suits and to show hairy chests.

It was all about being “groovy”, so they say.

Source: vintage everyday: Here Are 35 Reasons Why Men’s Fashion in the 70s Should Be Forgotten

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1940s Fashion America.

May 8, 2017, 10:31 pm

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ca. 1943 — Model wearing double-breasted mustard-color tweed coat from Henri Bendel.

Extraordinary Color Fashion Photography Taken During the 1940s by John Rawlings

John Rawlings (1912-1970) was a mid-20th-century American modernist photographer who worked for Condé Nast for 30 years.

He grew up in Ohio before moving to New York in the early 1930s, and was hired by Condé Nast in 1936 as an assistant to Horst P. Horst and George Platt Lynes during their time at Vogue.

Rawlings was promptly sent to England in 1938 to set up an in-house photography studio at British Vogue. He shot more than 200 Vogue and Glamour magazine covers, as well as working on commercial print and television ads, portraits, and nudes.

Rawlings returned to America in 1940, and by the end of the decade was experimenting with light, using a combination of reflective materials with natural and artificial light.

The 1940s and 1950s were important decades in American fashion that photographers like Rawlings helped create and document. His iconic images capture the less theatrical and pared-down American aesthetic perfectly.

Charles Dare Scheips Jr., former director of the Condé Nast archive, has said, “Rawlings was certainly the first major Condé Nast photographer to demonstrate a truly American eye.”

ca. 1940 — Standing model in red wool slack suit emblazoned with eagle figure, with white shirt and white turban, surrounded by mythological illustrations.

ca. 1943 — Model on striped couch wearing a deep green wide-neck knit dress by Hattie Carnegie, jewelry from Seaman Schepps.

 

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Stylish Dressers from Yesteryear.

May 13, 2017, 2:58 pm

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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 classy people that definitely knew how to dress.

 

Source: vintage everyday: 50 Vintage Fashion Photos That Reveal Just How Awesome People Used To Dress

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Hot Pants from the late 1960s, London.

May 20, 2017, 3:18 pm

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Hot Pants or “short shorts” and long boots were Fashion Styles Of the late 1960s.

They first appeared as a design item in so-called ‘Swinging London’ and within a short amount of time became the rage in Australia and elsewhere.

The trend for shorter, brighter shorts for young women with shapely legs was started by fashion designers in London.

Source: vintage everyday: Hot Pants: One Of The Sexiest Fashion Styles Of All Times

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1920s Female Fashion Outbreak.

June 1, 2017, 4:50 pm

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1920s: The Period of The Female Fashion Outbreak Over 90 Years Ago

The 1920s is the decade in which fashion entered the modern era.

It was the decade in which women first abandoned the more restricting fashions of past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes, especially dresses.

See more images via vintage everyday: 1920s: The Period of The Female Fashion Outbreak Over 90 Years Ago

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Masterpieces of Hair Styling by Sam McKnight.

June 15, 2017, 5:34 pm

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Tilda Swinton for Dazed & Confused, May 2010: Carine Roitfeld, former editor of French Vogue, writes: ‘Sam has magic fingers, he makes hair look effortless and can make any girl feel confident, feel their best, just with his touch.

I see all the models and actresses smile when they are with him, because they relax and they fall in love with him …

Often he just comes on his own. But what he does bring is very important … his genius hands’

Photograph: Glen Luchford/Dazed & Confused

Victoria Beckham for Vogue UK April 2008:

‘When Sam’s hands touch the model, you can see her expression completely change.

Often I’ll take the picture literally as Sam takes his hands off her head, before she can revert back to modelling.

I have so many pictures of Sam’s hands, split seconds after he’s let go of he model’s head – she’s in a different place.

Whether it’s Uma Thurman or Kate Moss or Naomi Campbell or Gemma Ward.

You get emotions from the girls that you wouldn’t get.

He will transform these models into characters.

See more images via Hair goals: Sam McKnight’s masterpieces of styling – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian

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Vintage Swimwear, 1940s-1950s.

June 16, 2017, 8:02 pm

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The mid to late 1940s was a breakthrough period for women’s swimwear, and at its peak was the birth of the pacesetting Bikini in 1946.

And it really boomed in the 1950s.

A postcard set of 69 women in swimsuits from the 1940s and 1950s will bring to you a clearer view.

See more swimwear via vintage everyday: Vintage Swimwear Revisited – 69 Glamorous Postcards Show Women Swimsuits in the 1940s and ’50s

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Women’s Hats of the 1950s.

June 22, 2017, 8:04 pm

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Hats were still worn daily by women in the ‘50s. They could be very large, or very little, and were held on the head using elastic linings and long hat pins. They were made from straw, wool felt or satin for evening, and were often decorated with feathers, beads, ribbons, flowers and nylon netting

They were worn in a variety of colors to match every outfit.Hats added the final touch of 1950s glamour to a woman or girl’s outfit, particularly in the early 1950s.

These beautiful black and white shots of 1950s hat styles were taken by photographer Philippe Pottier.

See more images via vintage everyday: 30 Glamour Women’s Hat Styles in the 1950s

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Women’s Hairstyles in the 1920s.

June 27, 2017, 8:59 pm

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 Four beautiful examples of the 1920s Hair and Make-up most fashionable styles.

Although popular conceptions of the Jazz Age suggest that every fashionable woman bobbed her hair during the 1920s, some women did keep their hair long.

 Bebe Daniels, 1920s.

Long-haired women did not customarily wear their hair loose; rather, they pulled it back to the nape of the neck and wound it into a smooth chignon or knot.

See more images via vintage everyday: Vintage Women’s Hairstyles – Fabulous Pictures of Women’s Hair & Make-Up from the 1920s

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Portraits of Women by Frank Eugene, 1900s and 1910.

June 28, 2017, 6:46 pm

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Born in New York to immigrant parents, Frank Eugene (1865 – 1936) was one of many young German-Americans to travel to Munich to study at the Royal Bavarian Academy of Arts.

He was a founding member of the Photo-Secession and one of the first university-level professors of photography in the world.

Eugene considered himself more like a painter than a photographer.

He emphasised by the manipulation of his photographs of the negatives as well as after the positivado, by means of pens, pencils and punzones.

This amazing selected photo collection he shot women portrait from between the 1900s and 1910s.

See more Images via vintage everyday: 51 Amazing Photos of Women Portraits Taken by Frank Eugene From Between 1900s and 1910s

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Evening Wear of the “Roaring 1920s.”

July 7, 2017, 3:23 pm

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Photos of Women in Evening Gowns during the 1920s.

The 1920s is one of the most impressive periods for female fashion.

Here is a collection of gorgeous photos of women in their evening gowns during this era.

 

See more images via vintage everyday: Fashion in the Roaring Twenties – 36 Gorgeous Vintage Photos of Women in Evening Gowns during the 1920s

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Flappers of the 1920s.

July 9, 2017, 10:11 am

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In the early 1920s, things changed rapidly, the 19th Amendment passed in 1920 giving women the right to vote.

Women began attending college. The Equal Rights Amendment was proposed by Alice Paul in 1923.

World War I was over and men wanted their jobs back.

Women, though, who had joined the workforce while the men were at war, had tasted the possibility of life beyond homemaking and weren’t ready to relinquish their jobs.

Prohibition was underway with the passing of the 18th Amendment in 1919 and speakeasies were plentiful if you knew where to look. Motion pictures got sound, color and talking sequences.

The Charleston’s popularity contributed to a nationwide dance craze. Every day, more women got behind the wheels of cars. And prosperity abounded.

All these factors—freedoms experienced from working outside the home, a push for equal rights, greater mobility, technological innovation and disposable income—exposed people to new places, ideas and ways of living.

Particularly for women, personal fulfilment and independence became priorities—a more modern, carefree spirit where anything seemed possible.

Delphine Atger, 1920s

The embodiment of that 1920s free spirit was the flapper, who was viewed disdainfully by an older generation as wild, boisterous and disgraceful.

While this older generation was clucking its tongue, the younger one was busy reinventing itself, and creating the flapper lifestyle we now know today.

Photo: YouTube

It was an age when, in 1927, 10-year-old Mildred Unger danced the Charleston on the wing of an airplane in the air (see above).

What drove that carefree recklessness?

For the most authentic descriptions that not only define the flapper aesthetic, but also describe the lifestyle, we turn to flappers themselves.

Read more via The History of the Flapper, Part 1: A Call for Freedom | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian.

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Fashion of the 1950s by Norman Parkinson.

August 3, 2017, 2:53 am

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 Anne Gunning outside the City Palace, Vogue, November 1956.

Norman Parkinson (1913 – 1990) was a celebrated English portrait and fashion photographer.

He always maintained he was a craftsman and not an artist.

From his early days as a photographer up to his death he remained one of the foremost British portrait and fashion photographers.

His work, following the lead of Martin Munkacsi at Harper’s Bazaar, revolutionised the world of British fashion photography in the 1940s by bringing his models from the rigid studio environment into a far more dynamic outdoor setting.

Audrey Hepburn, US Glamour, 1955.

Humour played a central role in many of his photographs which often included himself.

As well as magazine work he also created celebrated calendars featuring glamorous young women.

Traffic 1957

See many more Images via vintage everyday: Amazing Fashion Photography of 1950s by Norman Parkinson.

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1950s Men’s Hairstyles The Crew Cut and Flat Top.

August 4, 2017, 7:18 pm

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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. “Gomer Pyle” from Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” which is more like the Australian Crewie that I used to be given back then.

Crew cut hairstyle.

The crew cut style has a significant meaning for the men choosing to wear it. This haircut held symbolic meaning that meant hard work ethics.

In fact, this style was adopted by the military to replace the old style, traditional buzz cut.

The reason for this change was how well the meaning behind the crew cut was taken by those around the wearer.

The man with a crew cut had the appearance of being stable and responsible. Because of this appearance, the style became popular with government officials and other men that held roles of leadership.

The fifties spawned this cut and it is still as popular today as it was back then.

Flat-top haircut

The crew cut and flat top styles are cut close on the sides of the head above the ears and on around the head.

The hair on top is box shaped and flat, giving the style a distinguishing look. The top cut slopes into a shorter length in the back.

The 1950s men’s hairstyles are still popular today because they have a neat and presentable look.

Many of these styles, even the wildest ones, can be consider to be the epitome of the clean cut man.

Source: Most Popular 1950s Mens Hairstyles – Cool Men’s Hair

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