Get crafty and decorate L’eggs eggs for the holidays – they come in gold, silver, red, blue, green, so you can give brighter Christmas presents.
“Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.” “This was my perm two weeks ago.” “My hair was so dull and dry! And my conditioner made it
Radium face cream made its debut in 1905: ‘The radium in the cream energizes the cells of the skin so that they throw off impurities… producing the charming glow of delicate color.’
Steel fashion plate for January 1859 Dinner dress of peach blossom silk; the skirt double, and trimmed by a cordon of passementerie, mixed black
Most women’s shoe styles originate in Europe. Top-notch U.S. designers adapt European styles to U.S. taste. New designs sell first in the highest price brackets, from $16 up.
When it comes to 1950s spring fashions for women, there are more straight shoulders than last year. Are skirts shorter? Yes, but not unbecomingly so. Fourteen or fifteen inches from the floor, according to your height. The newest hat is almost shoulder-wide.
Choose the style that suits your hair type — we’ll tell you how to make it work for you!
Fashion Free Fall Not light years away, but right now, this summer, a chance to soar off into a new fashion orbit, wearing the kinds
For cooler weather: Wraps, cloaks and circulars Plush in rich qualities is largely used for wraps this season. There are beautiful figured plushes on blush
Take a sweater, trim a sweater… and thereby add a whole new fashion dimension to your wardrobe. A dress or a skirt becomes a costume when it has its own sweater.
Pink is a morning, noon and night color — it can be beguiling or sophisticated. Look for pink accessories as a complement to or to contrast with your favorite summer dress.
An Eastern corset dealer, who has in his time evidently written editorials for a circus, claims that his corset makes any thin figure a vision of loveliness, baffling description, and defying exaggeration.
6 million teenagers love to sew – this is what they will make this fall Full of enthusiasm, teenagers all over the country will welcome
It’s happened at last — fashion grows up this season. Gone is the little-girl look — the doll dress, cinched waist, and crinolines — it’s the woman who is now the darling of designers.
Make your own jewelry – vintage style! Create your own distinctive beaded jewelry by weaving it on a basic box loom. You can make an
The best figures in Hollywood? Judge for yourself — we quit! Several issues ago, Photoplay-Movie Mirror made the innocent mistake of asking noted experts to
General Electric Portable Hair Dryer (1962) Under these pink & pretty Sally Victor petals… is that marvelous new General Electric portable hair dryer. Lovely, isn’t it!
To most American women, lipstick is a form of clothing; without it, they feel undressed. In 1946 alone, American women spent an estimated $29,200,000 for 5000 tons of lipstick.
Toni Owen, the fashion designer of the unusual ’50s eveningwear coordinates shown here, says separates are perfect if you like to dress for evening dates without overdressing.
Exercises to take off inches, and diet to drop off pounds – this program was planned for the readers of Woman’s Day by the famous beauty expert Elizabeth Arden.
The absolutely wild, wonderful way to tell time! (1968) New from General Electric: Peter Max Clocks Daisy Butterfly, Opticon, Wow Now, Daisy Reflection, Flower Girl,
Colleen Moore face powder from the Owl Drug Co. The cosmetician, like the artist, dreams of his master creation. Darnee had given us Colleen Moore
These flouncy playsuits and bathing suits pose a considerable amount of skin, but are demurely decorated with pinafore necklines, little girl skirts, ruffles and bustles and bows.
Daintiness means a number of things. It calls for head-to-toe cleanliness. Clothes and lingerie must be spotless. Soiled white collars, gloves or other accessories detract considerably from a girl’s appearance.
Based on the state of plastic surgery in the 1920s, and with regular improvements in science, one journalist suggested in 1922 that soon women wouldn’t have to age – ‘I mean shriveled or waddling old and all that.’
The young lioness swimsuits Brave… sensuous… graceful… beautiful… Don’t you want to be a young lioness this summer? Of course you do! Grrrrrrooowwwwlll! they’ll say
After years of deliberation and search through the fashion centers of the world, women have been brought to the realization of exactly what they require in the way of fashionable corsets.
If you suspect that you are too fat or too thin, there are several simple rules that you can follow to find out your ideal weight… according to society in 1920.
Whether a current fashion is a calico look or a velvet look, a hemline, a shape or a topless swimsuit, it is always a reflection of the tempo of the era which gave it birth.
“What’s happened to our marriage?” Vintage Lysol ad: “I’ll never go back to him… never!” Vintage Lysol ad: His many neglects were due to her ONE
Suddenly, as if in answer to a universal male prayer, hot pants appeared spontaneously in all the civilized capitals of the Western world.
There is not a man living who does not like to see a woman in an apron. Every groom dreams of his young wife donning an apron in which to pour his coffee.
Here are six full-color fashion layouts – with 44 different outfits – as published in The Delineator during the summer of 1922!
Pretty hair should be fluffy, it should be glossy, it should be sufficiently abundant to clothe the head nicely, and it should be even in color.
Ice skating itself is graceful, Every movement is picturesque and full of life and action, and the fashionable girl typically enjoys studying the art of skating.
Casual dresses of the ’50s were pretty on their own, but still the style mavens commanded women, ‘You’ll wear these American-made fashions from now on, wherever the sun shines.’
The real death of a cheerleader story (1985) 
Say, Say, Oh Playmate: We traced the story of this old song and hand clapping game, and have the lyrics 
62 beautiful vintage home designs & floor plans from the 1920s 
New phone services: Call Waiting & Call Forwarding (1974) 
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