Before the Civil War, popular Elegant Victorian dresses were not just several feet wide and many layers think, but there were different dresses for dinner, evening, carriage rides and beyond.
Here’s a look back to the most beautifully stylish vintage 1920s dresses and other clothing for women from the roaring twenties, with tips on how to choose the finest fashions.
Pretty hair should be fluffy, it should be glossy, and it should be even in color. Find out how to get these classic looks in this collection of old-fashioned haircare tips!
Tailor-made jackets in velvet are now quiet the thing, and made medium-length, double-breasted, turned-back collar and pockets on either side; very much, in fact, on the order of the English top coat.
You can create new fashions from old clothing! Here, see how a moth-eaten bathrobe and skirt, an outgrown blouse, knee-worn slacks were converted into sparkling new accessories.
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.
One little piece of bright felt by the yard, cut in a simple shape, a few quick stitches, no blocking at all – and, presto! – a hat! Here are some simple vintage one-piece hats you can make
The small hat We lament its coming and we hope for its going, but still we cling tenaciously to it Why has the small hat
From 1950: A white hat, a flower hat, a wide feather-light straw so sheer that the sun shines through… This spring, hats have a lovely quality of becomingness.
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.
United States astronauts who go to the moon may wear headgear designed and produced by a ladies’ milliner.
Hats of the season Nothing strikingly new in the advance millinery models – The saucy tilt still apparent Feminine fashions are about as uncertain a proposition
How to look your best… …meeting a traveler or traveling to a meeting (1947) Wear the right hat for the occasion! Stetson Hats How
Dye your clothes to refresh your wardrobe with new color: With dye pot and stencil brush The time of year is upon us when it
There is never a boy child who does not love to play soldier. The young soldier will be happier if he has a soldier cap. Either of the paper ones represented here in reduced size will answer the purpose.
Knitting an old-fashioned opera hood Make a chain of 90 stitches. Then knit one row across, then seam a row, knit a row, seam a row,
J C Harding & Co, Inc. electrical goods “Housecleaning made easy” – appliances, radio, vacuums Shoe store (1925) Display of Dr Scholl’s shoes and
Sweeping popularity of ribbons The ribbon girl has arrived in all her glory. It is some years since the ribbon epidemic has been assigned a
The name brand in kitted headwear In knitted headwear, the popular vote goes to Eagleknit by a thumping majority. You can’t equal Eagleknit’s record for
A sailor and his gal having a meal Note the fantastic vintage Solotone Jukebox speakers on the wall at each table. (Click on the photo
Keep it under your hat by Max Brandel Each of these hats represents a famous person. Can you identify them from their distinctive headgear? (Answers below.)
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