1949 fashion women

1949 - fashion for travel - london

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This year, the fall equinox falls on September 23rd, which means that we're just eight (seven if you don't count the one that we're on) days away from the return of autumn. Yippee!!! While part of me would love nothing more than to cling to summer's warmth for many, many more months, the seasons will come and go as they please, and I've long learned that it's best to just smile and go along for the ride. There's no prodding needed to get me to grin up a storm this month though, as I adore…

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1949 Maurice Roger

Look back at the style of 1948 - the year of the last London Olympics

1940’s Brief history of fashion in pictures.

A fashion look from November 2015 by nopenowaymaybeyes featuring Merona, J by Jasper Conran, Hamilton, Susan Caplan Vintage and Essie

all from the Life Magazine image archives, which I dearly love! previous posts: Rosie the Riveter’s safety bra

1945 Sears Spring Summer Catalog, Page 17

Two sisters, my mother and aunt, Clara and Vilma, dressed in the latest style. Taken in the Bronx, New York in the late 1940's. They were named for Clara Bow and Vilma Bánky. Homemade dresses. The houses in front of the house haven't been built yet. And there were still no houses behind us. Behind the girls, my grandfather built a large grape arbor, basically a city lot size, from which he produced what may have been the world's worst wine. The driveway that leads away on the left was turned…

mode féminine, 1940s.

mccall's magazine dress patterns july 1940

1949_tailleur_8

I often get asked what era is my favorite for vintage fashion in which I usually always respond that I like something about every era ( beca...