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1940s Fads: Indoor Sunbathing

The 1940s was a time when no one gave much thought to sunscreen and you could happily chain-smoke cigarettes and

Before the structure and corsetry of the 1950s was the softer silhouette of the 1940s. These photos are from a

Louise Brooks with her sharply bobbed hair is one of the most iconic figures of 1920s cinema and epitomized the

I don’t know very much about these fashions, except that they were captioned ‘Hermes Dresses, 1952’. I love the idea

When Princess Anne married Mark Phillips in November 1973 at Westminster Abbey, she wore a Tudor-inspired dress with a real

Photos taken at the McConnell Air Hostess School which trained air hostesses for TWA in the 1940s. The training included

Curious photos from a Beautiful Legs Contest from 1949. The pictures raise lots of questions in my mind – aside

You must have heard people say that the 1950s was a time of simpler pleasures, and these pictures of Disneyland

Marilyn Monroe photographed in February 1947 when she was still a young starlet. At this time she was still called

It’s amazing considering Liz Taylor got married 8 times that she managed to make a fashion statement every single time!

These beautiful Victorian portraits are a type of early photograph called daguerreotypes. Invented by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in the

One of three sisters, Norma Talmadge was one of the most popular actresses of silent movies in the 1920s. She

The airship industry effectively died with the Hindenburg disaster of 1937, but for 80 or so years previously the dream

50s blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield was married 3 times before her tragic death at the age of just 34. For

I stumbled across this photograph this morning and I’m ghoulishly intrigued by it. The only information I have about it

This photos were taken at a professional photo shoot for a young starlet some time during the 1940s. It’s really

Nose art on airplanes first became popular during WW1 when German airmen (or rather their ground-crews) started painting a mouth

When Gene Tierney married costume designer Oleg Cassini in 1941 she was planning to wear this amazing lace dress, designed