50 Vintage Fashion Photos That Reveal Just How Awesome People Used To Dress
40 Amazing Photos of France During the 1950s and 1960s
René Maltête (1930–2000) was a French photographer. He was inspired by playful and candid photography. He always found the way to be funny and whimsical with his art. He was interested in capturing French life and all of its characteristics.
Most of his photographs were taken on streets, capturing everyday life of French people. From sunbathing on the beach, to casual walking down the streets. But in all those everyday moments René managed to create clever images with a lot of humor. He used surroundings perfectly and told a little story on each and every of his photographs. He wasn’t afraid to touch all parts of society he lived and created like a free man. Most of his images are black and white but with his genius he painted so many minds throughout his life.
René’s pictures are based on incongruity and surprise: humor is always present, but more than just a picture, there is often a philosophical dimension. You can enjoy some of his amazing work here below.
(Photos by René Maltête)
41 Beautiful Photos of Actress & Singer Jane Powell in the 1940s
American singer, dancer and actress Jane Powell was born in 1929 as Suzanne Lorraine Burce in Portland, Oregon where she achieved local fame as a singer, touring the state as the Oregon Victory Girl selling victory bonds. As a teenager, she relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and rosed to fame in the mid-1940s with roles in various Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals.
Powell’s vocal, dancing, and acting talents were utilized for lead and supporting roles in musicals such as A Date with Judy (1948), Royal Wedding (1951), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), and Hit the Deck (1955).
By the late 1950s, her film career slowed, leading her to transition to theatre with performances in various touring shows as well as two Broadway productions.
In 1985, she relocated with her fifth husband, former child star Dickie Moore (died 2015), to New York City and Wilton, Connecticut, where Powell was occasionally active in local theatre. Following the death of her husband in 2015, Powell sold their Manhattan apartment and relocated permanently to their second home in Wilton, Connecticut. Powell died of natural causes in Wilton on September 16, 2021, at the age of 92.
Take a look at these lovely photos to see the beauty of very young Jane Powell from the 1940s.
43 Beautiful Photos of 1960’s Women Fashion
In a career that spanned seven decades, Norman Parkinson (1913 – 1990) dazzled the world with his sparkling inventiveness as a fashion photographer. His long association with Vogue, and his numerous assignments for Harper’s Bazaar, Town & Country and other international magazines, brought him worldwide recognition. His impulsive and unstructured style changed forever the static, posed approach to fashion photography, while his enchanting, idiosyncratic persona charmed his sitters and projected an alluring and glamorous public image.
Parks reinvented himself for each decade of his career, from his groundbreaking spontaneous images of the 1930s, through the war years and the Swinging Sixties to the exotic locations of the 1970s and 1980s. He had become a household name, the recipient of a CBE, a photographer to the royal family, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and the subject of a large scale retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Parkinson was in incisive portraitist and photographed many of the greatest icons of the twentieth century as well as some of the world’s most beautiful women.
Here is a color photo collection of 60’s women fashion taken by Norman Parkinson. Take a look…
(Photos by Norman Parkinson)
37 Wonderful Photos Showing Farm Ladies Over 100 Years Ago
These lovely photos that capture portraits of farm ladies from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.
63 Amazing Vintage Photos of Hollywood Stars During the 1920s
18 Fascinating Photographs of Freddie Mercury Posing With His Beloved Cats
There are lots of crazy stories going around about Freddie Mercury. The extravagant Queen frontman always was one of the favorite subjects of the tabloids. You might have heard some crazy drug or party stories, but this true story is about something completely different: cats.
Freddie Mercury was a cat person, no doubt about that. He owned several cats during his life and missed them a lot when he was on tour. According to Peter Freestone who wrote Mercury’s memoir, the singer often “called” his cats when he was away. He would call his house and a friend or family member on the other side of the line would get his cats on the phone. He told them about his day and how much he missed his furry friends.
Freddie Mercury also dedicated the album “Mr Bad Guy” and the song Delilah to cats. People think Delilah is about a woman but there is a line which goes: “peeing all over [his] Chippendale Suite” – gotta be a cat.
At the time a cat named Jerry was big in his life. Delilah was a large calico cat he adopted in 1987. He favored her. He treated her (and his other pets) like children according to Jim Hutton, his last partner.
Other cats he cared for were: Goliath (a small black cat who liked to sleep in the bathroom washbasin or at least he did when they couldn’t find him once), Miko (black and white – mainly black), Romeo (tabby and white), Lilly (black and white – mainly white, a Turkish Van type cat) and Oscar (an orange-and-white Tom who came to live with him via his partner Jim Hutton).
38 Amazing Photos of Celebrated Female Jazz Artists of the 1940s
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William Paul Gottlieb (1917-2006) was an American photographer and newspaper columnist who is best known for his classic photographs of the leading performers of the “Golden Age” of American jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. Gottlieb’s photographs are among the best known and widely reproduced images of this era of jazz.
During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of hundreds of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, typically while they were playing or singing at well-known New York City jazz clubs. Well-known musicians Gottlieb photographed included Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Jo Stafford, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Jordan, Ella Fitzgerald, Toots Thielemans, and Benny Carter.
These selected photos from his work are portraits of female jazz artists that he took from the 1940s in New York.
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34 Fantastic Photos of Women Wearing Trousers During the 1930s
The 1930s is when we really see women in trousers get their stride. It was still not accepted by the majority in the early part of the 1930s.
They were not widely worn, but by the mid 1930s it was acceptable for wear for sportswear. They’re mostly seen on campus, at the resort, and in other places if you lived in the warmer climates like Southern California or Florida.
In the second half of the 1930s, trousers really start going crazy. In 1939 it seemed everyone wanted them. There were lounging ones, playing ones, work ones, beach ones, pajamas… and sometimes even dinner outfits.
The late 1930s is playful, and trousers fit in perfectly with that ideal. Trousers were not meant to hug your butt. They really wanted them to fit like a skirt- skimming your hips and rear loosely, then falling to a low crotch, and splitting into a bifurcated garment.
Here below is a nice photo set that shows trousers’ styles of women from the 1930s.
20 Wonderful Photos of Ferrari 275 GTB, the Most Satisfying Sports Car in the World
The Ferrari 275 is a series of front-engined V12-powered grand touring automobiles with two-seater coupé and spider bodies produced by Ferrari between 1964 and 1968.
The first 275 series cars were powered by a 3.3 L (3286 cc) dual overhead camshaft Colombo 60° V12 engine producing 260–320 hp (190–240 kW). An updated 275 GTB/4 was introduced in 1966, with a revised four overhead camshaft engine producing 300 hp (220 kW). The 275 series were the first road-going Ferraris equipped with a transaxle and independent rear suspension.
Pininfarina designed the 275 coupé and spider bodies, while Scaglietti designed the 275 GTS/4 NART Spyder, of which only 10 were made.
Motor Trend Classic named the 275 GTB coupé/GTS spider as number three in their list of the ten “Greatest Ferraris of all time”, and the 275 GTB/4 was named number seven on Sports Car International’s 2004 list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s. In a September 1967 road test, Road & Track described the NART Spyder as “the most satisfying sports car in the world.”
