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1940s Fashion in America.

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...

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Wedding Dresses, 1920s & 1930s.

Remember that 1920s encompasses a decade which is a long time in fashion, so there is not just one definitive look. At the beginning of the 20s, women were moving from their confined Edwardian corsets...

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Awful Photos of 1980s Hairstyles.

Awful Photos of ’80s Hairstyles You Will Definitely Not Want to Try Ever. 1980s, children & youth, fashion & clothing, humor & hilarious, life & culture, portraits The 1980s brought us...

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The Allure of Red Hair, c. 1923.

Red-haired woman circa 1927. Red-haired woman circa 1927. Photograph: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images Hair is being dyed red when it is not naturally that colour. The fashionable colour...

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Steichen at ‘Vogue.’

 Actor Jetta Goudal wearing a satin gown by Lanvin, from Vogue, November 1923. Shooting for Vogue and Vanity Fair in the 20s and 30s, father of fashion photography Edward Steichen devised a mode of...

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How Elizabeth the First made Red Hair fashionable,1558.

Queen Elizabeth I by Unknown continental artist, circa 1575. Photograph: National Portrait Gallery London There’s a painting in the National Portrait Gallery that has long been a source of fashion...

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Glamour of the 1950s.

These photos depict a very common style of the 1950s in glamour photography. There were however no modelling agencies and this made it difficult in terms of finding professionals. Most of the support...

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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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Italian Fashion in the 1950s & 1960s.

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. Partners in life as well as in work,...

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Holy Cow! Electrifying Hairstyling in 1923.

A woman models the latest permed hairstyle for hairdresser company Eugène Ltd in 1923. Image Credit: Photograph by the Wellcome Collection via From Frankenstein to feminism: how electricity powered...

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A Queer Black Fantasia by Athi-Para Ruga.

Night of the Long Knives I, 2013 … ‘ The title is a play on that unfounded settler panic, because we’re not killing each other. We are steamrolling ahead towards progress.’ Image Credit: Photograph by...

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Givenchy’s ‘Little Black Dress’.

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...

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AussieFashion over the Years.

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....

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The Pirelli Calendars.

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...

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Style Moments that defined the 1970s.

Joni Mitchell
, 1972: The poster girl of hippie chic, Joni Mitchell was undoubtedly one of the Seventies’ ultimate style icons. She wore tie dye blouses, earth-goddess hair and billowing kaftans like...

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Vogue Photos – Clifford Coffin, 1940-1950.

Fabulous Fashion Photographs from Vogue Taken by Clifford Coffin from Between the 1940s and 1950s. American photographer Clifford Coffin (1913-1972) is considered by many who knew him as the greatest...

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Fashion Pics of the 1940s-1950s.

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...

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Vintage Images of Women.

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...

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Miss Fisher’s 1920s Fashion.

In 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...

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Vintage Pics of Food Queens.

Miss Lemon, 1920 Queen for a year! Guess this is what we call #foodporn nowadays.Take a gander at a whole contingent of vintage beauty pageant queens– healthy young ladies who snapped up long coveted...

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