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• 1950s Hand Drawn Dresses by Hermes
  on Apr 25, 2016 in 1950s Fashion Vintage Ann Sothern fashion Hermes style
  I don’t know very much about these fashions, except that they were captioned ‘Hermes Dresses, 1952’.  I love the idea of all the detail being drawn on, although I’m not sure they would look quite this fabulous in real life ra...
• Iconic Wedding Dresses #10: Princess Anne
  on Apr 21, 2016 in 1970s Bridal Fashion Iconic Wedding Dresses Vintage bridal fashion princess anne Royal style wedding wedding dress
  When Princess Anne married Mark Phillips in November 1973 at Westminster Abbey, she wore a Tudor-inspired dress with a real 1970s flavour. Who would have guessed those two styles would be a good combination..?  With it’s high neckline and long...
• Air Hostess Training in the 1940s
  on Mar 29, 2016 in 1940s Gallery History Vintage Air Hostess aviation history vintage
  Photos taken at the McConnell Air Hostess School which trained air hostesses for TWA in the 1940s.  The training included learning the correct way to serve drinks, dealing with inebriated passengers and even learning how to change nappies (did Air H...
• Miss Lovely Legs 1949
  on Mar 16, 2016 in 1940s Gallery History Vintage Beauty beauty pageant pageant photography photos vintage
  Curious photos from a Beautiful Legs Contest from 1949.   The pictures raise lots of questions in my mind – aside from why you’d want to enter a ‘beautiful legs contest’ in the first place. Why is one of the women wearing a...
• Disneyland in the 1950s
  on Mar 7, 2016 in 1950s Gallery History Vintage
  You must have heard people say that the 1950s was a time of simpler pleasures, and these pictures of Disneyland in the 50s show that perfectly.  This was a much more low-tech world of stagecoaches and steam paddle boats and serious people riding on...
• Marilyn Monroe before Plastic Surgery
  on Mar 2, 2016 in 1940s Cinema Vintage Vintage Style Icons Beauty Marilyn Monroe plastic surgery style vintage
  Marilyn Monroe photographed in February 1947 when she was still a young starlet. At this time she was still called Norma Jeane, and hadn’t yet undergone her Hollywood makeover. In 1950 she had rhinoplasty (a nose-job) and a chin implant on the...
• Iconic Wedding Dresses #9: Elizabeth Taylor (1975)
  on Feb 29, 2016 in 1970s Bridal Fashion Iconic Wedding Dresses Vintage Elizabeth Taylor Liz Taylor sketch style wedding wedding dress
  It’s amazing considering Liz Taylor got married 8 times that she managed to make a fashion statement every single time!  This is one of my least favourite of her wedding outfits, partly because I still struggle to love 70s fashion (too many ba...
• Silent Movie Icons: Norma Talmadge
  on Feb 10, 2016 in 1920s Cinema Silent Movies Constance Talmadge movie Natalie Talmadge Norma Talmadge silent movies
  One of three sisters, Norma Talmadge was one of the most popular actresses of silent movies in the 1920s. She had a difficult childhood; her father was an unemployed alcoholic who abandoned his family when they children were still young, leaving Norm...
• How The World Looked When Airships Filled The Sky
  on Feb 6, 2016 in 1920s 1930s History Vintage airships history photography photos vintage
  The airship industry effectively died with the Hindenburg disaster of 1937, but for 80 or so years previously the dream of lighter-than-air travel had gradually been becoming a reality. The sight of airships were becoming less of a novelty and were s...
• Iconic Wedding Dresses #8: Jayne Mansfield
  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...

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