“Three 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleFashion Pics of the 1940s-1950s by Blumenfeld.
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...
View ArticleThe 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....
View Article1964 Big Hair Coiffures hit Munich.
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...
View Article“Italian Fashion, 1950s-60s”.
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,...
View Article“Fashion in Oz”.
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....
View Article“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...
View Article“Fashion 1920s-30s”.
Berlin, 1928 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,...
View Article“The Pirelli Calendar”.
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...
View Article“3D Spider Dress”.
by Shawn Saleme. 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...
View Article“Vintage Images by Newton”.
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...
View Article“Sam McKnight’s Masterpieces of Hair.”
Tilda 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,...
View Article“Dressing Up” for the Telephone.
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 Article“Women with Vintage Giant Hats.”
Looking at the favorite Fashion Style of Women From the early Years of the 20th Century one feels that women from the Edwardian era favored very weighty looking-fashion styles, from big gowns to giant...
View Article“Short and Curly.”
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...
View ArticleBathing Beauties in the 1920s.
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...
View ArticleMature Woman Changes 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...
View Article“Miss Fisher’s Finest 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...
View ArticleWomen’s Hairstyles in 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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