Photo Friday 13

Gosh it’s been a while since I’ve posted a photo Friday feature! I’ve recently been falling in love with all things vintage again and have found myself scrolling through the net oogling all the pictures of hair and makeup from the 1940s – 50s.

I hope to pop over to Oxford st today to check out the vintage store Absolutely Vintage and the vintage repro line Fever designs. With Autumn making its sudden appearance in the chilly crisp air I thought it the perfect opportunity to pop into some shops and see if i can bag myself some cosy yet figure hugging knits ^_^

One thing I found hard when keeping up vintage appearances was the lack of longer straighter hairstyles. I have hair down to just above my hips and its dead straight more chung li than veronica lake. Its an absolute pain curling my hair for it only to straighten out in a few hours.

It’s no secret that during the war years many girls didn’t have the time or means to regularly cut their hair and thus came the era of the beautiful pin curls. However, I have yet to master these styles with such ease and adapt them to my straight hair for an everyday glamorous look.

Anyway to the point, it was nice to come across this picture from the late 40s to see that there were women back then that had the lovely long locks unaffected by the 1920s-30s coiffure fashions. Its the actress Patricia Morison. I love it. It means there’s hope yet for these unruly locks and reminds me I just need to wake up earlier and put in more effort!

Taken in 1939 courtesy of Classic Cinema Gold

And here she is in all her victory roll glory from google images

Happy Friday lovelies xx