Dry it yourself: Vintage home hair dryers (1960s & 1970s)
General Electric Portable Hair Dryer (1962)
Under these pink & pretty Sally Victor petals... is that marvelous new General Electric portable hair... Read more...
Smart summery swimsuits for women (1955)
Summertime cottons by Catalina
For summer, nothing is more "fitting" than a Catalina cotton! These glamorous swimsuits slim the hips, diminish the wa... Read more...
Her crowning glory: Tips for more beautiful hair (1902)
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.
Swimsuits to be pretty at seashore and pool (1948)
Take care to be pretty at seashore and pool
By Betty Clarke, Beauty Editor
It is a very peculiar thing, indeed, that women who can be so ladylik... Read more...
The perfect woman’s figure (1938)
The perfect 1938 figure must have curves, but it differs from the perfect figure of past decades in relationship of curves to straight lines.
Miss USA 1981’s winning new look (1982)
Winning new look
When Kim Seelbrede, Miss USA 1981, asked us to give her a glamorous new look that would be easy to manage, versatile too, we started... Read more...
The newest beach clothes & bathing suits (1955)
Swimsuits: Quaintness up-to-date
Old-fashioned cottons with ruffles still leave skin bare for the beach
Although they are brief in size and brash ... Read more...
120+ gorgeous, glamorous actresses of the 1920s
A new age of cinema celebrities
While fame itself was nothing new in the 1920s, the recent introduction of moving pictures had transformed the very... Read more...
Fashion lessons from the ’20s: How to spoil the effect of beautiful clothes (1926)
How to spoil the effect of beautiful clothes
It isn't what you wear, it's how you wear it
Fashion before and after photos
No doubt you have... Read more...
Vintage mascara from the 1920s
Viola Dana Reveals the secret of her beautiful eyes (1926)
Miss Dana, world-famous for the beauty of her expressive eyes, accentuates the lovely swee... Read more...
Beauty tips for an ugly duckling (1939)
Photoplay's own Beauty Shop
Radio's "Dr. Susan" (Eleanor Phelps) undertakes to remodel an "ugly duckling" -- with results that will help ... Read more...
Makeup secrets from actress Blanche Bates (1913)
"Making up" with famous stars
This Highly-Misunderstood Process Involves a Lot More Than Just Putting "a Dab o' Powder" on Your Nose.
By Idah Mc... Read more...
Office girls as shapely as models (1913)
Office girls as shapely as models
Is the working girl to be barred from the Venus contest now in progress, and which has already reached from Buffalo... Read more...
Makeover: Making the most of your eyes (1978)
Makeover #12: Making the most of your eyes
Path Thomee, secretary to Good Housekeeping's Editor-in-Chief, applies makeup more expertly than many ... Read more...
New hairstyles for 1967: Brief and breezy
New fall hairstyles: Brief and breezy
Beauty feature by Judith Chase Churchill
The fashionable length is short, for hair as well as hems, and... Read more...
Don’t be skinny! Try Wate-On (1967-1969)
Don't be skinny! (1967)
Look better by adding desired pounds this easy way... without pads, exercise or fishy oils
Raquel Welch: "I ca... Read more...
How gals can be dainty misses (1953)
Daintiness is important in beauty picture
by Helen Follett
A gal may be a raving beauty, she may wear the finest fashions, but if she isn't a dain... Read more...
The Jackie Kennedy Look (1967)
7 pages of Jackie Kennedy and her fabulous clothes
The elegance, the chic, the supertaste that comprise...
The Jackie Kennedy Look
(b... Read more...
Should women court men? (1960)
How DOES a girl win a husband? By tradition, she waits until the right man comes along, then he woos her, pursues her, and leads her to the altar.
Hairstyles to suit different faces (1908)
Dressing the hair to suit the facial type
How the French, English and American woman makes the fashionable coiffure becoming
Coiffures, like c... Read more...
Cindy Crawford’s Cosmopolitan & Vogue covers of the 1980s
They didn't call Cindy Crawford a supermodel for nothing! Below, check out a selection of her fashion magazine covers from the mid- to late-eighties.
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Are you wearing gilded or decorated nails? (1916)
Decorate your fingernails if you would be up to snuff
Are you wearing gilded or decorated nails?
We are not kidding, but talking the latest societ... Read more...
4 new LipSlicks by Max Factor (1967)
4 new slick tricks: LipSlicks by Max Factor
These are the tinted glosses that slick your lips.
This is the brush of satin-y sable that smooths the... Read more...
How to make your hair more beautiful (1914)
Dear Mrs Thompson: Please tell me how I can have pretty hair and lots of it. Tell me what to use to make it look alive and make it grow.
Hairstyle notebook: 10 perm hints (1978)
10 hints on how to perm
Perming, done correctly, is one of the best ways to lock-in those super-popular curls.
1. Make sure hair is in top c... Read more...
Hollywood stars shine for Coppertone suntan lotion (1962)
Fastest tan under the sun --
-- with maximum sunburn protection!
Nothing flatters you like a beautiful tan. And... Hollywood stars know there's no... Read more...
