Hollywood Presents... the Brief Look!

Check out these stars:  Barbara Stanwyck, Shelley Winter, Claudette Colbert, Martha Hyer, Shirley Temple, and Lucille Ball (Click on image t...

Another Link - Millie Motts

Millie Motts has tons of great posts , including:  The Eyes Have It A New 'Do Time for a Little Pampering Lipstick Jungle Check it out. 

The Reconstruction Manicure...

(Click on the images to see larger versions.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

More Ivan of Hollywood at Retrohairstyles

Retrohairstyles has even more scans from "Hairstyles for You" from Ivan of Hollywood. Some of the links aren't up yet, but ho...

Rust Never Sleeps

After photographing a pair of rusty cast iron gravestones in a Northamptonshire churchyard, I poked my nose over the wall and was confronted...

Swirls for Silver

(Click on images for larger versions.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, November 1951

Blackpool Balloons

I feel a bit of a transport fest coming on. Trawling through some of last year's photographs I came across this Blackpool tram. I was up...

Cater to the Grammar School Set

(Want to see larger images? Click on the images to see the full size versions.)  Source: Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

A Tale of Two Graveyards

The top photograph is of the semi-ruined church of St.Mary in Arden in Market Harborough. Built originally in the 12th century as a chapel o...