Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: The Historical Archive
• Run Time: 127 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000NL6HSK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #266,388 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

This DVD contains a variety of films showing the evolution of women's fashion from the teens to the 60s. It makes for a fascinating overview of how fashions evolved and how the introduction and presentation of fashion to the consumer has evolved over this period. This is a rare inside look of over 50 years of vintage fashion industry footage. Here are all the films that make up this historical collection: Modes of the Moment (1917) - Silent, Black & White Run time: 3:33; Pattern for Smartness (1948) - Sound, Color Run time: 18:21; Aristocrats of Fashion - Sound, Color Run time: 9:58 (incomplete); Fashion Horizons (1940) - Sound, Color Run time: 19:11; Hair Dress Through the Ages - Sound, Black & White Run time: 10:18; The Story of a Star (1956) - Sound, Color Run time: 8:08; Fitting Faces - Sound, Black & White Run time: 8:30; Tomorrow Always Comes(1941) - Sound, Color Run time: 28:53; Color Keying in Art and Living (1950) - Sound, Color Run time: 9:51; RFD Greenwich Village - Sound, Color Run time: 10:52; Union Square, San Francisco Fashion Show - Sound, Black & White Run time: 0:41

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars View of a bygone world, January 31, 2010

By 

C. Wolf "Rohaifa" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Early to Mid-20th Century Vintage Women's Fashions and Clothing DVD - Fashion Models and Shows, Wedding Dresses, Lingerie, Glamour Modeling and More (DVD)

I loved it. Ok, it seems that someone scraped together any fabric or fashion related promotional video they could find and piled them onto this DVD, and I'm glad they did. I'm going to screen the "Simplicity" one at my next American Sewing Guild meeting. Very inspiring and amusing -- how the world has changed! Some clips show how selling was done in the middle of the last century.