Vintage Streetstyle: the 1940's

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Mary Martin in Jackson Park, Chicago, 1944. Photo by Charles Cushman.

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Taken during the 1946 Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus in Chicago, Ill. Photo by Charles Cushman.

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A circus beauty in pale lavender cap, coat + shorts. Chicago, Illinois, 1946.

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Alzana in costume for Gold Rush tableau at the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus - Chicago, 1949. Photo by Charles Cushman.

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Al Swanson and future Mrs. Swanson in garden of Wooded Island, Jackson park Chicago, Ill. 1944. Photo by Charles Cushman.

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Girl Walking Atop Promontory Rocks - August, 1941. Photo by Charles Cushman.

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Jean Neil, Swimming Girl. Taken in Chicago, 1946. Photo by Charles Cushman.

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Marion Jacob, girl in brown & white sweater and white shorts - discovered with bicycle at 55th Promontory. Chicago, 1942. Photo by Charles Cushman.

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Chicago, 1940s

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Jackson Park - Chicago, 1944. Photo by Charles Cushman.

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Promontory Point. Chicago, 1949.

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wow this thread is gorgeous!

 

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Women modeling the new American Look.
Location: US
Date taken: April 1945
Photographer: Nina Leen

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Location: Garden City, NY, US
Date taken: 1942
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

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amazing photoes... i love the 40's!

 

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In honor of tomorrow's Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, here is an interesting photo gallery from LIFE magazine featuring a designer in 1947 who created wedding dresses and accessories out of - wait for it - turkey feathers.

In 1947, designer Barbara Orr Ehrhart demonstrated her love of turkey not just by having it for dinner at her Oregon wedding, but also by making wedding dresses out of turkey feathers for herself and her bridesmaids. LIFE captured the oddball ceremony, feathers and all, in these photographs.

For several months, Ehrhart collected 34,000 white plumes from 300 turkeys. The bridal gown was made of 500 yards of white plume feathers from a truckload of White Holland turkeys. The bridesmaids' dresses came in feathers dyed yellow, pale green, and black. One gown was valued at $18,000 -- the equivalent of nearly $175,000 in today's dollars.

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Shulman's market, on N at Union Street S.W. Washington, D.C., between 1941 and 1942. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Louise Rosskam. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range Madison County, Montana, August 1942. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Company. Chattanooga, Tennessee, June 1942. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Alfred T. Palmer. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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Rural school children. San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by John Vachon. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress


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