1940s everyday fashion

Katharine Trousers in beige dogtooth by Vivien of Holloway. These reproduction dogtooth Katharine Trousers are my absolute vintage dream come true! I have wanted a pair of old-Hollywood 1940s style…

New York Worlds Fair 1939 - Our final look through the collection of fashion photos taken in the Fall of 1939 at the New York Worlds Fair.The 1930s was now paving the way to a

Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, 1940; The idealized silhouette of the time was broad shoulders, tiny waist, and full hips yet women still maintained a natural look and waistline. Katharine is wearing a gingham dress that has a peter pan collar (popular in the 60s) with a corset over the top (popular style in 2016). Source: Marie Claire (“We highlight the key moments for 1940s fashion”)

Born in 1924 in Newark, New Jersey, American actress and producer Eva Marie Saint attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York...

Two sisters, my mother and aunt, Clara and Vilma, dressed in the latest style. Taken in the Bronx, New York in the late 1940's. They were named for Clara Bow and Vilma Bánky. Homemade dresses. The houses in front of the house haven't been built yet. And there were still no houses behind us. Behind the girls, my grandfather built a large grape arbor, basically a city lot size, from which he produced what may have been the world's worst wine. The driveway that leads away on the left was turned…

That's what women worn in the 1940s. These vintage snapshots show female fashion in the 1940s.

Schaft, Jannetje Johanna "Hannie", born 16-09-1920 in Haarlem. Her mother was a Mennonite and her father was attached to the Social Democratic Workers' Party.

Although influenced by the Great Depression in the United States, and especially World War II, the women's fashion in the 1940s had its own ...

Back in late 2013, I penned a post called Ten Cold Weather Vintage Wardrobe Staples that was inspired by no small part by the scads of co...

Circa 1940s