1940's Fashions

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hairstyles for your face shape and perfume for your hair colour and mood, Glamour of Hollywood 1940

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Stylish lady on what looks like Seventh Avenue, 1949.

Photo: Homer Page via the Howard Greenberg Gallery

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Swansdown 1946

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For a more defined high waist.  1945 Vanity Fair Ad.

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Hat by Lord and Taylor, 1944.

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Photo by John Rawlings 1945

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Vintage Fashions of the 1940’s

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Judy Garland (1940’s)

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The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) dir. Erle C. Kenton

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Portrait of an American teen, 1944.

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Ingrid Bergman in Michael Curtiz’s CASABLANCA (‘42)

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“Though largely ignored in America’s popular history of World War II, Black women’s important contributions in World War II factories, which weren’t always so welcoming, are stunningly captured in these comparably rare snapshots of Black Rosie the Riveters.”

Source and images

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Vogue, 1943. Model reading wartime press release. Photographed by John Rawlings.

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ATS spotters, wearing sunglasses, watch for any sign of hostile aircraft at a London anti-aircraft battery. In front of them is a range-finder. September 1940.