Burlesque and Pinup
Retro pin-up girl hair - how to look like a Varga girl
Pin up girl hairstyles: When you look at those retro Varga pin-up girls, don't worry that those perfect waves, sculpted ringlets and squeaky-clean locks would need a team of stylists. Sally Rebel shows you how to achieve three classic pin-up girl looks: The Natural, the Sophisticate and Victory Rolls.
Retro pin-up girl hair - look like a Varga girl in 3 different ways!
Guide to vintage hosiery and nylon stockings
Nylon stockings: In WW2 women couldn't get hold of nylon stockings so they'd dye their legs with tea bags and paint seams down their legs. Our style guide tells you what to look for in both modern and vintage nylon stockings, and how to wear them.
Vintage hosiery & nylon stockings
Retro fashion: Mix & matching periods
Retro fashion: Why not combine 50s skirts and cardigans with 1920s art deco belts and jackets? Or a 30s-style mini trilby with 1920s t-bar heels? Span decades with your attire.
The art of corsetry
Gothic / burlesque corsets: Initially invented by the father of the Modern Primitive art movement, corsets were an attempt to give women the 'ideal' figure. You can buy comortable modern corsets online today, but the early corsets were such an extreme form of bodyshaping that bodily organs would literally be dislodged from their resting places. From the past to the present, discover more about the art of the corset...
Calendar girls
Pin up girl style: What is fashion without glamour? Clothing is a statement, a reflection of individuality and sometimes can even be seen as art. The roaring twenties, flapper thirties, and even swinging sixties were a time of glittering larger than life Hollywood screen starlets with furs, jewels, and suave leading men. Even today, names such as Marilyn or Bettie send thrills down our spines. What better season than spring, a time of promise and renewal, to revive classic pinup style looks for the new generation?
Burlesque style
Burlesque clothing: You've probably heard of the Burlesque revival even if you don't know what it is. Roswell Ivory tells you how to achieve the burlesque look through dress, accessories, hairstyling and - of course a certain flouncy yet ladylike attitude.
Quiff hairstyle tutorial
Retro hairstyles: This quiff hairstyle video tutorial will show you how to achieve a low quiff for everyday wear and a high psychobilly quiff for a night of serious dancing and prancing./p>
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Vintage handbags
Vintage clothing: Kitsch, retro and vintage handbags are objects worthy of lust. Ruby Mae James names her handbags like children. Find out more about where you can get kitsch, vintage and retro handbags - and about Ruby's super-charming obsession.
Hanky panky - retro silk hankies
Hanky panky - retro silk hankies
Vintage clothing: Silk hankies are sweet, sexy and very romantic. Learn how to wear a sexy silk hanky in a modern style, a number of uses for your silk hanky, and how to speak privately with lovers through a subtle hanky code...
Falling in love with satin/lace chokers...
Gothic clothing: There comes a point where you decide the best way to emulate luxurious Victorian and Burlesque styles is to fall in love with quality and detail. Discover the perfect satin or lace choker for you and learn how to wear it and care for it. Who knows? One day it might become your family heirloom...
How to wear a corset
Gothic / burlesque corsets: Corsets make us feel beautiful and look striking but they really embody the phrase 'gilded cage'. Since the hourglass fantasy is confined by the back-aching reality, here is some advice on wearing corsets so you don't have to learn the hard way.
Dealing with corset itch
Goth / burlesque corsets: Fine, so you're wearing your corset... and you get the dreaded, notorious corset itch. Just a little one initially, but it spreads until you're in a creepy crawly challenge from 'I'm a Celebrity'. The ideal solution is to disrobe, but sadly you can't go whipping your corset off in most public spaces. Here's how to deal.
Mary Quant's Mini skirt: A mini history
Style: Mary Quant was one of the style pioneers of Swinging London - she introduced the bewildered world to not only patterned tights, not only Jean Shrimpton, not only the very concept of a high street fashion boutique... But also... the Mini! Mary Quant, we salute you!
Burlesque and Pinup
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