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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....
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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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....
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