Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through the 1890s. The period saw many changes in fashion, including changes in styles, fashion technology and the methods of distribution. Various movementContinue reading “30 Elegant Photos Show What Victorian Girls Wore in the 1860s”
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17 Lovely Photos Showing How Starlets Celebrated the New Year During the 1930s and 1940s
A large clock in the sand at Venice Beach, made with letters and people. A rope in a circle makes the outer edge of the clock, while ladies in swim suits lay around the outside of rope. Four of them hold up the date 1935, while 2 ladies make themselves the minute and hour handsContinue reading “17 Lovely Photos Showing How Starlets Celebrated the New Year During the 1930s and 1940s”
45 Gorgeous Photos of Actress Donna Douglas in the 1950s and 1960s
Born 1932 as Doris Ione Smith, American actress and singer Donna Douglas moved to New York City to pursue a career in show business and started as an illustration model for toothpaste advertisements. Douglas appeared in a 1958 episode of The Phil Silvers Show “Bilko and the Crosbys” credited as Doris Bourgeois, her given nameContinue reading “45 Gorgeous Photos of Actress Donna Douglas in the 1950s and 1960s”
30 Wonderful Photographs That Show Everyday Life in Italy During the 1960s
Amazing Portraits of Jamie Farr as Sgt. Maxwell Q. Klinger in ‘M*A*S*H’
Maxwell Q. Klinger is a most unusual character from the MAS*H television series which ran from September 17, 1972, to February 28, 1983. Jamie Farr portrayed this comical, cross-dressing enlisted man who was always trying to get sent home from the Korean War. According to Farr, MAS*H creator Larry Gelbart based the character on comedianContinue reading “Amazing Portraits of Jamie Farr as Sgt. Maxwell Q. Klinger in ‘M*A*S*H’”
40 Elegant Photos That Defined Fashion Styles of 1950s Women
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Space Age: Egg & Ball Chairs of the 1960s and 1970s
The race for the conquest of space had a great impact on people in the mid-1960s and thus also on fashion and design. The question of how one wanted to live in the future brought forth futuristic designs and manifested itself through geometric shapes. With the Sixties Revival at the end of the 20th centuryContinue reading “Space Age: Egg & Ball Chairs of the 1960s and 1970s”
Incredible Vintage Photos of Amsterdam’s People in the 1960s and 1970s
Eduard van der Elsken (1925–1990) was a Dutch photographer and filmmaker. His imagery provides quotidian, intimate and autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second World War into the nineteen-seventies in the realms of love, sex, art, music (particularly jazz), and alternative culture. He described his camera as “infatuated,” and said:Continue reading “Incredible Vintage Photos of Amsterdam’s People in the 1960s and 1970s”
40 Vintage Photos of 1960s Young Women in Their Dresses and Skirts
The type of dress worn by women, like most everything else in the sixties, changed drastically from the beginning of the decade to the end. Although that is certainly more true of younger women than the older set, who were perfectly fine with their late 50s-era dresses and long skirts. However, many women were preferringContinue reading “40 Vintage Photos of 1960s Young Women in Their Dresses and Skirts”
Elegant Photos That Defined 1930s Fashion Styles of Women
The fashion of the thirties is usually overshadowed by the Great Depression, but the 1930s were full of glamor and style. The very loose, square, drop-waist, high knee-length hem and slightly “boyish” look of 1920s fashion for women was completely gone by the 1930s. It was replaced with a much more modest and form-fitting styleContinue reading “Elegant Photos That Defined 1930s Fashion Styles of Women”
