1940s everyday fashion

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.

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”)

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…

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…

A colorful insight to the 1940s - These luscious color photographs of women in the 1940s reside in the National Geographic Creative website where you can license high resolution images. Glamourdaze honed in on two

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

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

If one thing about fashion of the 1940s is for certain, it’s that the trends in America were influenced by the pressures of World War II.

In a nutshell, 1940s women’s fashion was about creating an hourglass silhouette with masculine details: padded shoulders, nipped in high wai...

Not really impress, these '40s dresses made us feel uncomfortable, and furthermore they also made young women look older. Check out this pho...