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• 1940s Summer Underwear
  on Jul 25, 2016 in 1940s Fashion Underwear Vintage lingerie underwear
  Before the structure and corsetry of the 1950s was the softer silhouette of the 1940s. These photos are from a fashion feature on summer underwear from 1949, aren’t they beautiful?   Image source and copyright: TIME LIFE archive...
• Louise Brooks: From Dancer to Showgirl to Scandalous Flapper Icon
  on Jun 6, 2016 in 1920s Cinema Vintage Vintage Style Icons flapper Greta Garbo Louise Brooks movies style
  Louise Brooks with her sharply bobbed hair is one of the most iconic figures of 1920s cinema and epitomized the rebellious modern woman of the time. She started off her career as a chorus girl and dancer in 1922, and by 1925 was a dancer for Ziegfeld...
• 5 Strikingly Modern Victorian Photo Portraits
  on Feb 26, 2016 in 1800s History Vintage daguerreotype photography photos portraits Victorian vintage
  These beautiful Victorian portraits are a type of early photograph called daguerreotypes.  Invented by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in the 1830s the photographic image is imprinted onto a silvered copper plate, making each portrait unique. The phot...
• Iconic Wedding Dresses #8: Jayne Mansfield (1958)
  on Feb 2, 2016 in Bridal Fashion Iconic Wedding Dresses Vintage 1950s Bride dress fashion Jayne Mansfield pink style wedding
  50s blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield was married 3 times before her tragic death at the age of just 34.  For her second wedding to bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay she wore this sensational skin-tight dress covered with lace and sequins. (He proposed wit...
• Iconic Wedding Dresses: Gene Tierney
  on Jan 16, 2016 in 1940s Bridal Fashion Iconic Wedding Dresses Vintage bridal Bride Gene Tierney Oleg Cassini vintage wedding wedding dress
  When Gene Tierney married costume designer Oleg Cassini in 1941 she was planning to wear this amazing lace dress, designed especially for her by her husband-to-be. Ultimately though they didn’t have time to get the dress made, as eloped to Las...
• Iconic Wedding Dresses #7: Gene Tierney (1946)
  on Jan 16, 2016 in 1940s Bridal Fashion Iconic Wedding Dresses Vintage bridal Bride Gene Tierney Oleg Cassini vintage wedding wedding dress
  When Gene Tierney married costume designer Oleg Cassini in 1941 she was planning to wear this amazing lace dress, designed especially for her by her husband-to-be. Ultimately though they didn’t have time to get the dress made, as eloped to Las...
• Back When Everybody Smoked…
  on Jan 12, 2016 in 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s Gallery History Real Life Vintage history Photo photography photos smoking
  More and more smokers are becoming social pariahs. They have to stand on the street in the rain outside restaurants, bars, pubs and even their own cars (if their kids are inside). And while I don’t mind this, being a non-smoker, it does strike...
• Scream Queens: Elsa Lanchester
  on Jan 10, 2016 in 1930s Cinema Vintage Bride of Frankenstein classic cinema Elsa Lanchester film Horror Scream Queen Scream Queens
  You might not recognize the name Elsa Lanchester, but you’ll definitely recognize her in her most famous role: as the Bride of Frankenstein.  Actually that film title always annoyed me, since Frankenstein was the scientist, not the monster, bu...
• Queen Elizabeth II in the 1930s, 40s and 50s
  on Sep 8, 2015 in 1930s 1940s 1950s History Vintage engagement history Queen Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth II style vintage wedding
  Tomorrow Queen Elizabeth II overtakes Queen Victoria as the longest serving monarch in British History.  I was born in the 1970s so she’s always seemed very much an older woman to me, so I thought it might be nice to see some photos of her as...
• The Real Factory Women of Wartime London
  on Jul 17, 2015 in 1940s Gallery History Vintage history photography photos war WW2
  These women were all training in various London polytechnics to work in munitions factories during the early 1940s. I’m not sure these women would have ended up as the famous ‘canary girls’ whose skin and hair were turned yellow by...

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