Vintage Lookbook: Festival Land Girl
Project #42 on Independent Fashion Bloggers is to create a Festival Look. I know that lots of people will go with bikini tops, crochet scarves and floppy hats, but I dream of wearing something...
View ArticleCecil Beaton: Theatre of War
Above: A welder works on the deck of a new ship, Tyneside, 1943 A new exhibition opens at the Imperial War Museum London on 6th September of Cecil Beaton’s war time photography. I have a couple of...
View Article1940 US sailors and their tattoos
American sailors photographed with their tattoos in 1944 Source and copyright: This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person’s official duties. As...
View ArticleWho knew she’d soon be the most beautiful woman in the world?
Norma Jean Dougherty (who later became Marilyn Monroe) photographed for US Army magazine YANK on June 26 1945. There’s no doubting that Norma Jean is very pretty but it’s hard to see how she...
View ArticleWWII pin-up photo of Sherry Britton
Pin-up photo of Sherry Britton wearing a fabulous bikini dress from the December 1945 issue of Yank, the Army Weekly, a weekly U.S. Army magazine. See other WWII pinup photos from Yank magazine here....
View ArticleEdward Steichen’s war photographs
Edward Steichen is best known (at least to me) as being one of the main photographers for Vogue and Vanity Fair during the late 1920s and 1930s. He made a name for himself as a war photographer during...
View ArticlePin up girls at a Navy dance during WW2
Beautifully dressed pin-up girls waiting to be asked to dance at the NAS Seattle Spring Formal Dance in 1944. Who could resist such beautiful smiles? No wonder a dance with one of these ladies would...
View ArticleCary Grant in army uniform
English: Original studio publicity photo of Cary Grant for the film I Was a Male War Bride (1949). Doesn’t he look dashing in a uniform? He had the mole on his cheek removed the year after this photo...
View ArticleA soldier’s goodbye from a (hungry) cat’s point of view
Yeah yeah, I know you’re off to war, but you know you haven’t FED ME YET? This photo was taken during the Second World War as an Australian solider said goodbye to his wife before leaving. If you had...
View ArticleThe realities of war: 1940s breast-protecters (yes, really)
I know industrial accidents are no laughing matter, but I’d seriously never considered a need for breast-protecters before (as modelled so beautifully by this brave lady). I guess it’s just the...
View ArticleWW2 factory girls
Woman aircraft worker, Vega Aircraft Corporation, Burbank, Calif. Shown checking electrical assemblies WW2 factory girls working on military aircraft in 1940s America. [4 photos] This girl in a glass...
View ArticleWhen Paris Was a Very Different Place
It’s spring, and so of course my thoughts have returned to Paris, the beautiful city of blossom and boulevards, baguettes and bicyclette *sigh*. But Paris has always had a certain charm it was a very...
View Article15 Real-Life World War 2 Pin Up Girls
During World War 2, the American Magazine for GI’s (called YANK would you believe?) featured a number of fabulous pin-ups to help boost morale of the troops. Many were big cinema stars like Rita...
View ArticleMovie Monday: Triple Cross (1966)
After last week’s disappointment watching Citizen Kane I was delighted to discover a real gem this week. Don’t be put off by the grim movie poster (right), this isn’t a harrowing war movie it’s a...
View ArticleThe Tragic Love Story of Double Agent Dagmar Lahlum
After watching Triple Cross earlier in the week, I couldn’t resist looking into the story behind the movie and finding out more about notorious double agent Eddie Chapman. It sounds like he was every...
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