The first person who came to me let me borrow some 1950's magazines and a book which is quaintly called "Christian Dior's little dictionary of fashion" - "A guide to dress for every woman". Lovely. To really make use of these borrowed finds, i have going to scan them so i ca look at them for longer than i actually have them. Unfortunately the magazine is a big as a newspaper today, so the sides of the scanned images have been cut off, but i am making sure i scan the most important part of that page!
This 'every Thursday' magazine was on sale on September 18 1954. Other than noticing her fringe, what also caught my eye was that compared to the magazines sold today, this specific mag is very simple with not too much fuss - probably explaining the way women were back in the 50's.
You should never judge a book by its cover, so i happily looked inside to look for inspiration to how women were back then for my curiosity. This is my finding:

This was from an article called 'Notes on Coats' - very catchy. I have got a coat very simlar to these so im very pleased.

This is just one double-page from the Christian Dior dictionary. The photos in this book has given me lots of inspiration on how i can take the photos showing my costumes. The best way to capture my 1950's costumes is to shoot the photos the 1950's way!
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