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Women’s Hats of the 1950s.
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...
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1940s Hollywood Fashion Hairstyles.
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...
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Hot Pants from the late 1960s.
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...
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Woman in a Blaze of Colour, Cartagena.
Image Credit: Photograph by Stanislav Shmelev, Winner of Competition. Photographers Comment: I took this picture of a woman in her traditional clothing in Cartagena, Colombia. Comment from Paul...
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‘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...
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Stylish 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...
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‘Portraits’ by Frank Eugene, 1900 to 1910.
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...
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‘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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Vintage Pics of Strange Beauty Devices,1920s-1940s.
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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Olde 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...
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Swimwear Models of the 1920s.
In the late 1800s swimwear consisted of fully covered gowns and bloomers that revealed very little. Although the sun’s harmful UV rays were an unknown danger at the time, this conservative beachwear...
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Vintage Swimwear 1940s-1950s.
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...
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Monochromes from the 1980s-90s.
Known for his startling black and white images of supermodels such as Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford, and celebrity portraits, Herb Ritts’s fashion photography the human body with bold definition....
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Fashion 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...
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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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Flappers of the 1920s.
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...
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From Flappers to Grunge, 1920s -1940s.
A recent piece calls for the death of the hipster, who’s about to be dethroned by a less cool cousin, the yuccie (young urban creatives). But we call it a bluff. In the 1920s, flappers embodied the...
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Hair & Makeup from the 1920s.
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...
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Fashion pics of the 1950s by Norman Parkinson.
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...
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Evening Wear from the ‘Roaring 20s.’
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...
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