Vintage Fashion Adverts

A collection of vintage fashion illustrations featuring elegant women in classic attire, showcasing jewelry and stylish clothing from the early to mid-20th century.

Dresses by Lucien Lelong haute couture, depicting elegant people on a casino terrace at Monte Carlo. Date: 1929

Wear Jewelry - You Will Win, Ludwig Hohlwein, poster, circa 1925

Young girl looks down at her mothers stockings that she is wearing, and thinks to herself that she wished that she had them instead of her own, because Santa would be able to put more presents in them. Date: 1927

1900s 1910s STYLISH WOMAN WEARING BLUE HAT TIED WITH BOW GLOVES CAMEO PINK SHAWL SEPTEMBER 25 1910 SUNDAY MAGAZINE

Front cover of Britannia and Eve magazine, Christmas 1942, featuring a stylish woman wearing a festive red and white sweater, hat and gloves combo. Date: 1942

'I'M SWANKING LIKE AN HEIRESS AT WHITLEY BAY - I'VE FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT WORK !' Date: circa 1910

Front cover illustration featuring a glamorous 1930s woman wearing an elegant low-back evening gown, her beautiful blonde locks curled away from her face. Date: 1939

DOLLY SISTERS Jenny and Rosie, American stage performers, with what looks like a mirror, but isn't Date: early 20th century

Dresses by Lucien Lelong haute couture, depicting elegant people on a casino terrace at Monte Carlo. Date: 1929

A woman, wearing a blue and white dress, sits at a writing desk holding a pen, illustration by C H Taffs from the magazine Le Miroir des Modes, vol 71, no 5, November, 1915.

Portada de la revista alemana Lustige Blätter. Una mujer empeñando su collar de perlas. Año 1914.

Advert for a brassiere for sport activities. Kestos 'A women can concertrate on her game and win' Date: 1934

Fragrances of women of France PAL (Jean de Paleologist, says) (1860-1942). Printing Paul Dupont. Fragrances of women from France. Poster. Color Lithography, 1896.

1910s SOPHISTICATED WOMAN WEARING BLACK AND WHITE OUTFIT PULLING ON DRIVING GLOVES AUTOMOBILE AWAITS AT SIDEWALK - kh13597 NAW001 HARS SATISFACTION FEMALES SUNDAY HEALTHINESS HOME LIFE LUXURY COPY SPACE HALF-LENGTH LADIES PERSONS AUTOMOBILE CONFIDENCE OUTFIT TRANSPORTATION FREEDOM ADVENTURE LEISURE STYLES SOPHISTICATED AND AUTOS SUNDAY MAGAZINE UPSCALE MONTHLY AFFLUENT AUTOMOBILES COSMOPOLITAN STYLISH VEHICLES AWAITS CHIC FASHIONS WELL-TO-DO YOUNG ADULT WOMAN CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY OLD FASHIONED

Front cover illustration featuring a 1930s lady decked out in the finest equestrian attire, complete with top hat, tails and whip. Date: 1939

Baby Topper With Fur Cuffs, Tailored Women's Dresses - 1946

Dresses by Mag Helly fashions, showing an elegant woman in a white outfit in a garden setting. Date: 1929

Sunday Magazine of the Philadelphia Press, Philadelphia

Woman Wearing Risque Clothing. ca. 1940, Woman Wearing Risque Clothing

Lady dressed in a negligee, coyly glancing away from her newspaper. Suzanne Meunier was a French artist who produced a number of erotic illustrations for The Sketch and The Bystander during the 1920s and 30s. 1928

Three Types of Backs for Sack Suits, Men's Fashion

Airmaid Hosiery and Airmate Socks. ca. 1938, A Valentine for the ladies - rich, romantic Airmaid Hosiery - will delight the glamour girl as well as grandmother. Here's your chance to 'Sock' your man and make him like it - with Airmates: or perhaps he would prefer an Airmate tie. Airmaids and Airmates are gift packed and Valentine gift card included with our compliments. Happy Valentine.

Woman in Red Dress. ca. 1938, Woman in Red Dress

"What do you think of your friend Claire Is he a fashionable chap" "No, he's no hipster; he has not been to Palais de Glace!" Date: 1908

1910s YOUNG WOMAN WEARING OPERA LENGTH GLOVES BEIGE & BLACK DRESS A BLACK HAT WITH WHITE OSTRICH PLUME ALL ON RED BACKGROUND

Posters, Italy, 20th century. Leopoldo Metlicovitz (1868-1944) and Marcello Dudovich (1878-1962), Mele, 1913-1914. Detail of advertisment for Mele Department Store in Naples.

Rouge Gagne!. 1920s cover illustration of The Bystander's Riviera Number showing a woman in fur coat and red cloche hat holding a dog. Date: 1928

Braemar sweaters and cardigans advert advertising in Country Life magazine UK 1951

Advertisement for Kestos lingerie, showing a carefee woman in a swimming costume. Date: 1932

Man in suit, bowler hat and cane walking past bouquinistes on the Seine. Tenue du matin. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Bernard Boutet de Monvel from Tommaso Antonginis Journal des Dames et des Modes, Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames, Paris, 1913.

Bes-Tone hair coloring and oil shampoo tint , Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Mademoiselle Lydia Johnson of the Concert Mayol, dons a top hat. Date: 1927

Advert for Kestos lingerie, to be worn under evening dresses, will impart an indefinable air of elegance and distinction to the wearer. Date: 1932

Mr. & Ms. Gidon-Lynnes, Duettists MONDAIN DECADENTS Anonymous. Mr. & Ms. Gidon-Lynn�s, DECADENT MONDAIN DUETTITY. Lithography. 1880-1900.

Illustration showing a fashionable young woman getting ready, with the help of her maid, for a formal evening event as her more mature escort waits patiently on a sofa. This image was originally entitled 'The Silk Worm'. Date: 1928

Front cover showing a young French woman with short red hair, revealing pinny and rolled stockings, tossing a pancake! Date: 1927

An elegant woman in a full-skirted dress with a nipped in waist typical of 1950s fashion, poses with hat and gloves finishing off her ensemble. 1954

Double-Breasted Overcoat, Men's Fashion

Vanity Fair: Yachting Devotees; 'Tiggy', Sir Richard Bulkeley, August 7, 1907, Leslie Matthew 'Spy' Ward, 1851-1922, British, 1907, Chromolithograph

The Boston Sunday Herald, 1893 - 1897. Flowers; women; clothing and dress

Class A: suits; No. 1. The new Bowdoin sack suit.. Fashion design drawings. 1900. Science, Industry and Business Library: General Collection. Clothing & dress

Unmasked ! Date: 1907

Front cover illustration for Britannia & Eve, June 1936 showing a fashionable and attractive young woman relaxing with a cigarette. Date: 01/06/1936

A Female Clown in Black Dress.

An illustration called 'Tres Sheik' by Bevan Petman was used for this issue of The Bystander. Date: 11th April 1928

1910s COY YOUNG WOMAN WEARING HAT WITH LARGE PINK FLOWERS AND BLUE RIBBONS LOOKING AT CAMERA APRIL 27 1913 SUNDAY MAGAZINE - kh13440 NAW001 HARS TEMPTATION HAPPINESS HEAD AND SHOULDERS STYLES AND PRIDE 1913 STYLISH 27 FASHIONS RIBBONS SPRINGTIME YOUNG ADULT WOMAN APRIL CAUCASIAN ETHNICITY OLD FASHIONED

Young Men's Two-Button Sack #2, Men's Fashion

Well-Dressed Couple, Men's Fashion

Advertisement for Wellworth Suits. ca. 1939, Dear Sir: There's definitely a feeling of real comfort in garments 'Custom Made' to your individual measure and instructions. Tailored clothes cost no more-drop by-let us show you our large assortment of the Spring Season's finest woolens-exciting values at popular prices that we know will appeal. The new WELLWORTH Spring line is here for your selection. Come in today

Woman in Navy Outfit, Christy, Howard Chandler.

Elegant front cover illustration featuring a a woman in a sack coat and pillbox hat clutching two blooms to her chest. November 1956

Woman cuts a dress patter with her scissors, Sewing & Knitting

Suprecool spray permanent wave , Hairdressing, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Art Goût Beauté (), Winter 1927-1928, N.V.F. Collée & Co's Rotterdam: Jean Patou (...). Five women's heads, numbered 1 to 5, with Cloches (Pot hats) by Jean Patou. According to the caption: 1. Bois de Rose Vilthooed garnished with Maroon-colored wrinkled velvet. / 2. Cloche hat in Maroon velvet with garnish cut in point. / 3. Chic hat in red taupe with tape velvet in the color topped. / 4. Small navy blue filthoous treated with adhesive springs in navy and red. 5. Vilthoed with turret-colored silk, slappy wavy edge.

'Sitting pretty' and how! , Lingerie, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Forstmann Woolens - Nostalgia Cards, illustration, 1939,

Front cover of The Tatler in 1960 featuring a young woman under the dryer in a hairdressing salon, Simon of Knightsbridge, where they guaranteed a hairdo in under an hour, providing lunch at the same time - perfect for busy working girls. Date:

Color advertisement for Melda pumps created by Hans Rudi Erdt around 1914, showing the pump, usage, and design features.

Très Parisien, 1927: Création Molyneux (...). Two pages (p. 3 and 4) with two illustrations. Recto; Molyneux creation. Verso: Creations by Lucien Long. Two pages and prints from the très parisien (1920-1936) mode magazine.

The Fashion Magazine as Temptress. The first fashion magazines were sold only by subscription. They have nondescript covers, with neither text nor image. This changed at the end of the 19th century when the publications came to be displayed in stands and shops. Publishers went to great lengths to entice potential buyers by means of attractive covers.

Jane Avril, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1899 print Paris paper portrait of dancer. historical persons. dress, gown: evening dress

Cover Of Country Gentleman Agricultural Magazine From The Early 20th Century. .

An elegant woman in a navy and white skirt suit, offset by a white hat and gloves, poses elegantly on a table next to a vase of chrysanthemums or marigolds. Date: 1954

I'm saving them for you! , Lingerie, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

A woman voting after the Nineteenth Amendment extended voting rights to women, Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 11, 1920.

Front cover showing a young French woman wearing a revealing red coat with fur trim, short skirt and stockings, skiing down a slop with three eager men following behind her. Date: 1927

At times the wind blows in Juarez, but we don't mind! , Lingerie, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Style and Good Taste, Men's Fashion

Front cover illustration featuring a pensive looking woman wearing a yellow blouse with a wide brimmed hat of blue trimmed with yellow. Date: 1935

Craven A, for your throats sake 'made specially to prevent sore throats'. A seductive woman smoking a cigarette, wearing a black off the shoulder dress, and feather headdress, gold jewellery and a chocker with a cameo. 1939

Advertisement for Modart Corsets, 1920. Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection

Shopping, Male Fashion

Ideal Book for Girls, Book Cover

Vogue mei 1939 : Pomone, 1939 Two women's hats decorated with flowers. paper fashion plates. head-gear: hat (+ women's clothes). fruits (+ variant)

Edward Penfield, Standing Girl with Book, 3 Masks on Wall, March Harper's, 1885-1915, zincograph on paper.

Bathing beauty in orange swimsuit and hat runs away from an approaching wave: "Help, I've got my new costume on!" Date: 1926

Salon, Male Fashion

InThe Garden 50's RetroDress I, Fashion - 50's Retro

Trade magazine for the Tailor, Spring-Zomer 1952, Nr. 11 and nr. 12, 1952 paper fashion plates. coat (+ men's clothes). trousers, breeches (+ men's clothes). head-gear: hat (+ men's clothes). clothing for the upper part of the body (VEST) (+ men's clothes). neck-gear ~ clothing (TIE) (+ men's clothes). trunk, suit-case. platform (railway, tramway)

Front cover illustration featuring a sophisticated looking woman holding a cigarette in her elegant hands. Date: June 1933

Young Men's Three-Button Sack #1, Men's Fashion

The wonderful Heath Robinson New Patent Thawing Machine. This stupendous invention has been specially designed to enable the pedestrian to walk with confidence on the most slippery roads. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1925

Well - here's looking at you! , Alcoholic beverages, Lingerie, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

1914 Spring-Summer Hat Collection, Men's Fashion

'I can't understand why he buys all those things for me!' , Lingerie, Telephones, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Harper's April. Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925. text. Posters. 1897. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. United States, Women , Clothing & dress

1900s FASHIONABLE COUPLE SITTING BACK TO BACK POUTING AFTER HAVING HAD AN ARGUMENT

The Fashion Magazine as Temptress, 1928 magazine Fametive magazine Femina. Mars 1928: cover with women's head behind curtain, hand with ring on the finger, from Martin. paper fashion plates

1900s PORTRAIT OF VICTORIAN WOMAN WEAR HAT COVER OF SUNDAY MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2 1906

Advert for Craven A cigarettes, 1930s woman smoking. 1934

Collier's illustrated weekly. Woman's number, New York, November 15th, 1902. ,

Collier's illustrated weekly. Woman's number, New York, November 15th, 1902. ,

Well - here's looking at you! , Alcoholic beverages, Lingerie, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Front cover from Britannia and Eve magazine showing a lady clad in a raincoat and umbrella, appropriate for the November issue. 1932

A good mixer, the shake 'em up girl , Alcoholic beverages, Lingerie, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States

Reclamebiljet voor The Evolution of Woman door Harry Whitney McVickar, anonymous, after Harry Whitney McVickar, 1896 print A woman in a sport kit with a golf club under her arm. A windmill in the background. paper golf. windmill

A girl wearing a John Cavanagh suit of soft, feather-weight tweed by Otterburn Mills in a mixture of pale grey and white. The jacket is double-breasted with a rolled collar set away from the neck and elbow length sleeves. The skirt is pleated from the waist. The tall-crowned, small-brimmed hat is by Reed Crawford designed especially for John Cavanagh. The gold plated brooch and slim link bracelet are from Paris House, the whtie cast iron table and wirework chairs from Elizabeth Eaton. Da

Front cover of The Tatler featuring a model wearing a party dress in silk gazah with an Empire bodice hold by shoestring straps. The background is an oil and collage, San Quirico d'Orcia by Joe Tilson, exhibited at the recent Friends of the Tate Gallery Exhibition. The dress and osprey plume are made-to-measure from Bellville et Cie. The patent slingback sandals are by Charles Jourdan. Date: 1963

Japan: Advertising poster for Shiseido Cosmetics, Ginza, Tokyo, 1941

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