Category: 1940s
Celebrate the Diamond Jubilee: Victorious Vintage at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Expect free music, vintage stalls, vintage hair and make-up and much more at Victorious Vintage, the UK’s largest free vintage and music event to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard this summer. Taking place over the Jubilee Weekend on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd of June 2012, expect an array of beautiful vintage [...]
Hollywood’s wardrobe queen: costume designer Edith Head
Nobody has poked, prodded and seen the frilly knickers of more vintage movie stars than Edith Head. Yet despite her glamorous line-up of colleagues, Head was never overshadowed throughout her career as a costume designer to Hollywood’s greatest. Edith Head, the quirky, owlish looking woman, made herself stand out and be honoured. In her own [...]
Fabulous Forties footwear to buy now
Vogue’s proclamation that ‘Il faut ‘skimp’ pour etre chic’ – you must skimp to be chic – may have set the tone for Forties wartime fashion, but you’d never know from looking at the era’s footwear. Heel lengths were solid and sensible, but with the introduction of open toes, shoes of many different colours and styles [...]
How to be a Bobby-Soxer
“Bobby-soxers” or “bobby-sox girls” was a phrase coined in the Forties to refer to over-zealous young female devotees of Frank Sinatra, the first singing teen idol. The name alluded to the fashion among teenage girls at the time to wear short white ‘half-hose’ socks. Rosie Cowling reports. In 1945 the press, who were by now calling Frank Sinatra “The [...]
The Birth of Soul music (part 2)
Writer Paul Culshaw continues his exploration of the birth of soul music. Vocal Groups were so involved in the progression in music from Rhythm ‘n’ Blues through Rock ‘n’ Roll then back to plain Rhythm ‘n’ Blues, then onto Soul and Motown music. One such group – The Dominoes – had two members with the [...]
Top make-up products to achieve a Forties look
The striking looks of the Forties reveal just how much women did to look polished, making today’s neutral make-up seem so bland. Max Factor make-up artist Caroline Barnes gives us some expert guidance in how to recreate bold, heavy-lidded eyes and Yanar Alkayat selects the tried and tested mascaras and eyeliners to achieve this look. Prepping [...]
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