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“Three Candles of Halloween.”

February 9, 2017, 7:56 pm
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This photo is from 1930 and it is “The Hon Mrs Roland Cubitt dressed as ‘Three Candles’ in a costume made by L & H Nathan Ltd, for the Pageant Of The Superstitions, a feature of the ‘All Halloween Ball’.
Keep your sexy pizza rats, your sexy Snow Whites, your sexy hashtags.
The best Halloween costume ever belonged to this woman in 1930, who is clearly going as “a candleholder who’s sick of your goddamn bullshit.”
Apparently, Mrs. Cubitt was Camilla Parker Bowles’s grandmother.
The longer you look at it, the better this photo gets.
Source: The Greatest Halloween Costume in History: Pissy Candelabra

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“1920s Fashion Outbreak”.

February 10, 2017, 7:40 pm
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Fashion Pics of the 1940s-1950s by Blumenfeld.

March 13, 2017, 12:00 pm
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Fashion Photography from the 1940s and 1950s by Erwin Blumenfeld (1)

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897 – 1969) is regarded as one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century.
In the 1940s and 1950s he became famous for his fashion photography, working for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and also for artistic nude photography.
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“Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.”
Erwin Blumenfeld.
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More terrific Images via vintage everyday: Amazing Fashion Photography from the 1940s and 1950s by Erwin Blumenfeld.

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The Truth about “Ugg” Boots.

March 14, 2017, 2:27 am
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31Ugg 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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“Italian Fashion, 1950s-60s”.

March 14, 2017, 3:35 pm
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Leombruno-Bodi (1)Leombruno-Bodi is the name that identifies Joseph Leombruno and Jack Bodi, who were both American photographers active in Italy beginning in the mid 1950s.
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Partners in life as well as in work, Leombruno and Bodi began collaborating in the 1940s.
In 1956 they moved to Rome where they associated with the American community that in those years were an integral part of the “dolce vita” lifestyle.
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In the early 1960s they began designing fashion, conceiving the knitwear line ‘Micia’, which is ‘Little Cat’ as Bodi told an American journalist during in interview in 1964.
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Bodi was the designer whereas Leombruno saw to promoting their creations for the foreign market.
In January 1964 Micia was presented for the first time to the public Palazzo Pitti during the Florentine fashion shows.
See more Images via vintage everyday: A Couple of American Photographers Capture Glamour Fashion of the 1950s and ’60s Italy

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“Fashion in Oz”.

March 14, 2017, 4:09 pm
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Zoe, Mrs Mary, Marjorie and Chloe Gullick, outside Altoncourt, Killara (ca. 1909). Zoe, Marjorie and Chloe are wearing wide-brimmed sun hats, a look which Margot Riley says Australians pioneered.  
ALARMINGLY, WHEN I ASK historian Margot Riley what Australians have contributed to fashion, she immediately brings up a classic combination – the safari suit and long socks.
“I think that was pretty uniquely Australian,” Margot says dryly. Thankfully, she moves on and lists a few other Aussie fashion innovations.
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Eleanor Elizabeth Stephen (ca. 1855) sits in a lovely crinoline dress. She is likely attached to a steel rod at her neck to hold her still for the photo. “People think why are they looking so serious, but it’s quite difficult to hold a smile still for the length of time required. It could be up to minute in these early days,” says dress historian Margot Riley
“In the 19th century there were quite a lot that were designed to deal with climatic condition…the wearing of sunhats in town and light-weight silk coats in summer.
And then of course now you get wonderful local designers who are responding to the local environment, people like Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee.
I think that sort of bush couture aesthetic that they developed in the 1970s and ’80s was a very important shift trying to create and independent unique look that tried to set Australia apart.”
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 Opera singer Madame Carandini and her three daughters (ca. 1876) in the era when it became fashionable to collect photos of public figures. 
For those that don’t know of them already, Linda Jackson and Jenny Kee are cut from the same cloth, producing patterned and quilted clothing in bright eye-assailing colours.
In our settler days, however, Australian fashion was regularly hijacked as a more subtle disguise.
“In Europe there was a very strong code about what was worn, by whom and doing what, and people knew that and they were very sophisticated in reading a crowd,” Margot says.
“[Early Australians] could change their look when they came to Australia…and they took advantage of distance and poor communication to reinvent themselves.”
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Valma Ashcroft (later Burrows, at left), one of Australia’s earliest paid fashion models, and another model in Australian fashion outside the Minerva French Perfumery, Kings Cross, 1941.  
Once they’d made something of themselves early convict emancipists were not shy about flashing their wealth around either. “There’s always comments made about how flashily they dressed,” says Margot. “Australians had a very vibrant workforce here; labour was in demand so the working man probably had more disposable income than in many other countries in the 19th century and the fashions reflect that.”
See more Images via Australia’s fashion history – Australian Geographic.

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“Little Black Dress.”

March 15, 2017, 7:30 pm
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From the moment Audrey Hepburn stepped out of a yellow taxi cab and stared whimsically into Tiffany & Co’s window in this gorgeous Givenchy creation, our love affair with the LBD (little black dress) began.
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Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy met and collaborated on the set of Sabrina in 1954, and a life-long professional and personal partnership was ignited.
‘It was a kind of marriage’, Givenchy would later tell the Telegraph.
There was nothing ‘little’ about this LBD – it set a new style standard in Hollywood in direct opposition to Dior’s ‘new look’.
A modern icon was born.

Read more at http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/blogs/544119/iconic-fashion-moments-in-film.html#Z7L1QxAke6FdqtUs.99

 


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“Fashion 1920s-30s”.

March 15, 2017, 8:23 pm
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Immortalized in movies and magazine covers, young women’s fashion of the 1920s was both a trend and social statement, a breaking-off from the rigid Victorian way of life.
These young, rebellious, middle-class women, labeled ‘flappers’ by older generations, did away with the corset and donned slinky knee-length dresses, which exposed their legs and arms.
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Tamara de Lempicka, Paris 1929. Photo by Dora Kallmus.
The hairstyle of the decade was a chin-length bob, of with several popular variations.
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See more Images via vintage everyday: Women’s Street Fashion of the 1920s.


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“The Pirelli Calendar”.

March 17, 2017, 7:15 pm
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Julianne Moore as the Greek goddess Hera, by Karl Lagerfeld for the 2011 Pirelli calendar. Photograph: Karl Lagerfeld/Pirelli
The publication to which these giants of modern style refer? A soft-porn calendar promoting tyres.
The extent to which the Pirelli calendar has been embraced by the fashion industry has been unavoidable, in the wake of 50th-anniversary gala celebrations held in a modern art gallery in Milan and attended by top-flight models, photographers, stylists and designers, and the publication of a new coffee-table book celebrating the half century.
The fashion industry, normally intensely snobbish about distancing itself from the fake-tanned, fake-boobed world of commercialised glamour modelling, has nonetheless taken the Pirelli calendar to its heart. (Or perhaps, more accurately, to its bosom.)
Pirelli’s triumph is a masterclass in image management, one that leverages basic instincts in a sophisticated marketplace.
Its power lies in the fact that being acknowledged as sexually attractive is a valuable asset to women in the public eye, whereas being seen as sexually available is demeaning.
So the deal Pirelli strikes with photographers and models is that they get to be sexy, and Pirelli gets to be classy.
A key part of the Pirelli legend is that the calendar is not available to purchase, but sent to a secret list of high-rollers and international public figures.
This exclusivity is now entirely academic – the images are widely published on the internet – but it sets a context no less powerful for being imaginary.
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French model Laetitia Casta, by Annie Leibovitz for the 2000 Pirelli calendar. Photograph: Annie Leibovitz/Pirelli
At its worst, the Pirelli calendar gives free rein to fashion’s ickiest side.
The 2010 calendar, shot by Terry Richardson, is all squeakily waxed young women with Richardson’s signature pool-party slicked-back hair, eating bananas or pretending to lick cockerels. (Seriously.)
But Pirelli has been very smart about playing up its illustrious roll call of photographers, from Helmut Newton to Annie Leibovitz, and about balancing the unreconstructed salaciousness of Richardson with artier issues.
Read on via Pirelli calendar at 50: how a soft-porn institution promoting tyres won the hearts of the fashion industry | Fashion | The Guardian.

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“3D Spider Dress”.

March 17, 2017, 10:40 pm
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3D printing is being explored in many different ways, and Dutch artist Anouk Wipprecht isn’t afraid to use the technology to push the limits of fashion.
Her latest creation is the “spider” dress, which is outfitted with six customized legs that spring out when it senses motion nearby.
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See Also 3-D Printed Plastic Fabric That Flows: New Software Is Making 3-D Technology Wearable
The structure itself was modeled using one of Intel’s Edison modules and is equipped with motion and respiratory sensors that link back the main processor.
If a person approaches the dress too fast, the arms spring up in a defense motion. But if a person approaches slow and smooth, the sensors will make suggestive movements to draw the prey… ahem, person closer.
Keep up to date with Anouk’s latest work on her site.
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via Creepy Couture: A 3D Printed “Spider” Dress That Senses and Reacts to Motion.


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“Vintage Images by Newton”.

February 24, 2017, 8:19 pm
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Vintage Newton, a pop-up exhibition of Helmut Newton prints from 1974-1984, feature Charlotte Rampling and Elsa Peretti, were produced from a series of transparencies that he considered his most provocative and important.
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“Sam McKnight’s Masterpieces of Hair.”

March 18, 2017, 8:27 pm
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3081Tilda 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

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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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“Dressing Up” for the Telephone.

March 20, 2017, 6:33 pm
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How to dress when using your landline (1)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.

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“Women with Vintage Giant Hats.”

March 25, 2017, 3:13 pm
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“Short and Curly.”

April 3, 2017, 5:44 pm
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The Popular Fashion Hairstyle of Girls in the 1930s.
In the beginning of the 1930s, women powerfully abandoned the traditional feminine image, instead there appeared a picture of confidence, dynamism which was strongly expressed through fashion, especially their hairstyles.

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Women in this period often appeared with short curly hair, beautiful and sexy at the same time.

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See more images via vintage everyday: Short Curly Hair – The Popular Fashion Hairstyle of Girls in the 1930s

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Bathing Beauties in the 1920s.

April 9, 2017, 1:33 am
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Evelyn Lewis competed in the Miss America pageant as Miss Washington in 1922
Stunning photographs taken of beauty pageants show that nothing has changed yet everything is different.
Vintage snaps from the 1920s, 30s and 40s show smiling young women lined up in their bathing suits, standing side on with a jutted hip and one leg stuck forward – or even in the air…
First Ever Miss Americas and Bathing Beauties from the 1920s (5)Alma Carroll wearing an Army overseas cap, has answered the beauty draft call here, hoping to be crowned Miss America of National Defense in 1934.
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Mature Woman Changes Fashion.

April 9, 2017, 1:42 am
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Rossi1Yasmina Rossi is revolutionizing the modeling industry while simultaneously empowering women everywhere.
The 59-year-old began her job as a model when she was in her late 20s—a time when most professionals are seen as too old and are forced to retire.
When she turned 45 years old, that’s when her career really took off as she worked for big companies like MasterCard, AT&T, and Macy’s.
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Not only did she book big brands at an age that most in the industry would regard as “past her prime”, she also managed to secure these modeling gigs while allowing her wrinkles to stand out in her work, profoundly accentuating her natural beauty.
“I like the way I look now than how I looked 20 years ago,” she told The Sunday Times.
“My body is nicer and I feel happier than when I was 20.” When asked about her beauty-related tips, the talented woman reveals that there’s no secret trick that helps her maintain her appearance.
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“All I have ever done is eat organic food – long before it became trendy,” Rossi explains.
“I take oil and use it on my skin. I put rapeseed oil on my hair. I scrub my skin once a week with olive oil and sugar. I eat an avocado a day and organic meat and fish.”
She continues on to state that exercise is key, but that you mustn’t overdo it. “This is very important,” she says. “And don’t take medicine if possible.
Go with nature instead of fighting it – this is the rule for everything.
”Whatever the secret to her beauty may be, the main takeaway from her success exceeds her personal gains.
Rossi represents a new era of beauty represented in fashion.
Though the industry has a long ways to go, she is breaking the mold and offering a step in the right direction, especially in terms of female ageism.
All photos via Yasmina Rossi. 
Read on via 59-Year-Old Woman Is Revolutionizing the Modeling Industry – My Modern Met

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“Miss Fisher’s Finest Fashion”.

April 9, 2017, 4:30 pm
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3d181871-5dc5-41c6-a9a3-c57ee3a6c21a-1530x2040In the ABC TV series “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” costume designer Marion Boyce shares her favourite new looks for the stylish lady detective.
Based on Kerry Greenwood’s bestselling novels and set in 1920s Melbourne, the series stars Essie Davis.
21bdf295-81d8-43df-ab71-0aa28a0fa5fa-1530x2040Known as a stickler for historical accuracy, Boyce and her team take up to eight weeks creating costumes, designing Miss Fisher’s hats and dresses and seeking out the perfect accessories – including a pearl-handled pistol
via Game, set and murder: Miss Fisher’s finest 1920s fashion – in pictures | Television & radio | The Guardian.

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Women’s Hairstyles in the 1920s”

February 23, 2017, 11:00 am
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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.

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 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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