The 1940s was a time when no one gave much thought to sunscreen and you could happily chain-smoke cigarettes and drink cocktails while you tanned, without so much as a thought to the health conse...
https://weheartvintage.co/2021/08/03/1940s-fads-indoor-sunbathing/
Before the structure and corsetry of the 1950s was the softer silhouette of the 1940s. These photos are from a fashion feature on summer underwear from 1949, aren’t they beautiful? Image sou...
https://weheartvintage.co/2016/07/25/1940s-summer-underwear/
I don’t know very much about these fashions, except that they were captioned ‘Hermes Dresses, 1952’. I love the idea of all the detail being drawn on, although I’m not sure they would l...
https://weheartvintage.co/2016/04/25/1950s-hand-drawn-dresses-by-hermes/
When Princess Anne married Mark Phillips in November 1973 at Westminster Abbey, she wore a Tudor-inspired dress with a real 1970s flavour. Who would have guessed those two styles would be a good ...
https://weheartvintage.co/2016/04/21/iconic-wedding-dresses-10-princess-anne/
It’s amazing considering Liz Taylor got married 8 times that she managed to make a fashion statement every single time! This is one of my least favourite of her wedding outfits, partly becaus...
50s blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield was married 3 times before her tragic death at the age of just 34. For her second wedding to bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay she wore this sensational skin-tigh...
https://weheartvintage.co/2016/02/02/iconic-wedding-dresses-8-jayne-mansfield/
This photos were taken at a professional photo shoot for a young starlet some time during the 1940s. It’s really interesting to see the different stages, especially the amount of contouring the...
https://weheartvintage.co/2016/01/21/an-original-1940s-make-up-tutorial-including-contouring/
When Gene Tierney married costume designer Oleg Cassini in 1941 she was planning to wear this amazing lace dress, designed especially for her by her husband-to-be. Ultimately though they didn’t...
https://weheartvintage.co/2016/01/16/iconic-wedding-dresses-gene-tierney/
So, who knew there was a trend for body jewelry in the 50s? These photos are from 1951 of ‘Cling’ jewelry, which presumably was somehow stuck to your skin rather than pierced into your skin...
https://weheartvintage.co/2016/01/08/bizarre-1950s-body-jewelry/
When 21-year-old Mia Farrow married Frank Sinatra (who was 50 at the time) in 1966 she wore an white skirt suit with a bow at the waist. The boxy cropped jacket had sleeves which finished at th...
https://weheartvintage.co/2015/12/19/iconic-wedding-dress-mia-farrow/