1940s aesthetic black women

Before the 1940s, women would not leave the house without wearing a pair of silk stockings. In fact, it wasn't considered appropriate to be bare-legged in public whatsoever unless you were at the beach. WWII shortages combined with the invention of new materials changed the way women purchased 1940s stockings. Stockings, also called Hose, came

— 𝓥𝓘𝓝𝓣𝓐𝓖𝓔 𝓑𝓛𝓐𝓒𝓚 𝓐𝓒𝓣𝓡𝓔𝓢𝓢𝓔𝓢 & 𝓣𝓗𝓔𝓘𝓡 𝓖𝓞𝓦𝓝𝓢 🎞️✨ ❤︎₊ ⊹ | vintage black hollywood actresses & their gowns. their fits were just gorgeous! simply gorgeous. they made something so simple look so extravagant at the same time. they carried themselves with such classiness. it was their aura. the power of black women, i swear. i adore old hollywood style. 🤍🖤📸 the vintage black starlets ︵‿୨♡୧‿︵ ♡ josephine baker ♡ dorothy dandridge ♡ nina mae mckinney ♡ diahann carroll…

Rita Moreno

THE BLACK theater community is mourning the loss of four pioneering luminaries – playwright Leslie Lee and entertainers Juanita Moore, Sheila Guyse and Chuck Patterson, who died between Decem…

Women like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe knew a thing or two about matching separates, great bathing suits and high-waisted shorts.

Dorothy Dandridge photographed by Ed Clark for Life magazine, 1951