Vintage Fashion Scans and Photographs

Firefox · 7th June 2003, 01:16

Pete Thomas scanned these from an old book:

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1054852078.jpg

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1054852198.jpg

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1054852304.jpg

If you have some other scans or photgraphs then fell free to post them.

Thanks to Pete for some good work!

Skirted-UK · 9th June 2003, 00:03

Great pictures, They are from a wonderfull time when most women didn't own a pair of trousers and had to do everything in tight skirts and high heel shoes. :)
I have loads of pictures like this which I could post if you can tell me how I can export them from my Microsoft Communites website to this page.

Firefox · 9th June 2003, 00:26

The best thing to do is save the pics on your hard drive, if they aren't already on there.

Then use our in house picture server, kindly provided by one of our friends here:

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/

You upload your pic using the "browse" button and link to the URL it gives you, using the [ img ] tags for posts in this picture thread.

Skirted-UK · 10th June 2003, 01:21

This is a montage made from a two page promotion article for a cut-out and sew skirt offer which was published in a 1956 women's magazine.

Most commercially made straight skirts had a kick pleat at the back to make them easier to walk in. However in the fifties, teenage girls often used to omit the kick pleat in order to make the skirts tighter for better effect.
The picture shows the model demonstrating the kick pleat at the back of the skirt, which they claim gives ample room for walking and goes on to suggest that you can even run for a bus in it!

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1055204000.jpg

Skirted-UK · 27th June 2003, 20:00

Two girls modeling the narrow straight skirts of the mid fifties.

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1056739947.jpg

Skirted-UK · 28th June 2003, 01:09

In 1953 a weekly magazine used a model to demonstrate the hazards of the new stiletto heel shoe.

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1056759316.jpg

Firefox · 29th June 2003, 20:17

Nice contemporary photos, Skirted.

Here's one from a works magazine in the early 1960's. I scanned it and the quality isn't great, but it shows what Air Hostesses were wearing at that time.

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1056914084.jpg

Skirted-UK · 29th June 2003, 21:56

Metal heels are not new as this 1956 picture of a black suede court shoe with
an aluminium heel demonstrates.
http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1056919877

Firefox · 29th June 2003, 22:06

Wow, this thread goes from strength to strength. That's a great picture which shows the metal heel is nothing so new. It's posed, obviously, but I love the flowing lines of the shoe and the way it is mirrored in the model's hand.

Skirted-UK · 1st July 2003, 00:35

This picture shows a young lady in 1958 modelling the new short! skirt.
By the late fifties skirts started to get shorter as young women found the long tight skirts of the mid fifties were
too limiting for their active life styles.
The high step pose is meant to demonstrate the improved freedom of movement that the shorter straight skirts gave women.
Note the 3" stiletto heel court shoes which were very popular at the time.

http://65.160.96.70/hhplace/images/1057015953