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Awesome Dressers.
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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“Dressed to the Nines”.
Meaning: Dressed flamboyantly or smartly. Origin Nine is the most troublesome number in etymology. There are several phrases of uncertain parentage that include the word. Examples are, cloud nine, nine...
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Short Curly Hair in the 1930s.
Short Curly Hair – 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...
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Mature Woman Revolutionizes Fashion.
Yasmina 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...
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“Wedding Dresses”.
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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Coco Chanel at Work.
A new book featuring images of Coco Chanel by the photographer Douglas Kirkland provides a unique insight into the woman who transformed fashion. Sent to Paris on assignment for Look magazine in 1962,...
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“Glamour of the 50s”.
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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60-Year Old becomes A Fashion Model.
Bored Panda invited me to tell my story, so here it is: I studied law but never practiced and instead worked in the movie business and advertising. Due to personal reasons I started a new job in April...
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Vogue Photos by Clifford Coffin.
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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Stunning Fashion Shots by Vernier.
Eugene ‘Gene’ Vernier (1920–2011) worked as a fashion photographer for British Vogue from 1954 to 1967, during one of the most exciting periods in fashion history. Shooting of-the-moment looks from the...
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1940s Photography by Rawlings.
Extraordinary Color Fashion Photography Taken During the 1940s by John RawlingsJohn Rawlings (1912-1970) was a mid-20th-century American modernist photographer who worked for Condé Nast for 30 years....
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“The Candles of Halloween.”
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...
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“The Sutherland Sisters”.
In the late 19th century, the most startling, erotic thing you could do as a stage performer is let down your Rapunzel-esque floor-length hair. In fact, according to their biographer, the first real...
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“1920s Fashion Outbreak”.
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...
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“Stylish Dressers”.
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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“Dressing Up for the Phone”.
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...
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“Horrific Beauty Devices”.
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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“Fine Fashion in the 1930s.”
The 1930s was the Most Powerful Flaring Period of Modern Female Fashion. The 1920s was considered subversive period of discreet female fashion, and the 1930s was a period of the most powerful flare. A...
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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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“Hairstyles of the 1940s”.
Women’s hairstyles and their beauty from the ever stylish 1940s with their pin-up curls and more. Curls were used to dress an area of the hair, like the opposite side to a roll, or piled up on the...
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