40's - 50's Fashion Film Collection

This collection contains 8 movies and is 2 hours of video.

Title Description
Duration
Fashion Horizons 1940

Mary Martin is featured in this Southwestern United States travelogue. Stopping off at a dude ranch in Arizona, the film focuses on the fashions of the Paramount starlets.

19:11
Aristocrats of Fashion ca. late 1930s - early 1940s

(incomplete)

Film focuses on the great fabric Bemberg rayon. and the amazing fashions that can be created from it, for sport and evening wear.

9:58
Pattern for Smartness 1948

See the high fashion design and creation of clothes sewn in the home.


18:21

Union Square, San Francisco Fashion Show] ca. 1950s

Union Square Park, San Francisco is the show place for this 50's fashion show newsreel.

:41
Story of a Star, The 1956

See the benefits to women, born of chemistry in this film about the sheer stocking.

8:08
Modes of the Moment 1917

Film sponsored by the Walk-Over Company deals with early "foot fashions"

3:33

Tomorrow Always Comes 1941

Rayon lingerie takes center stage in this promotional film utilizing "Time-travel".

29:53
Wonderful World of Wash 'n' Wear, The 1958 Jeffrey Lyon hosts this film, about the pleasure to be had using synthetic fabrics, and electric laundry equipment on washday.
22:30