January 2010

New at Couture Allure - Vintage Dresses and Suits

1950s Traina-Norell apricot silk dress and matching coat. 1960s Bernetti beaded dress and matching coat. 1959 Adele Martin dress with matchi...

Barry M has launched a new line of lip crayons, called the Lip Lacquer Crayons, and they are 4.95GBP each. These come in 5 colours, most of ...

Greta Garbo in her 11th film, "Wild Orchids", from 1929. Here she wears a coat trimmed in lush racoon fur and a cloche hat. Adri...

Quiz: Are You Wearing the Wrong Foundation? Find out and see which formulas are really right for you Are you tired of your foundation...

So a long time ago in this post I said I would show you guys my NOTDs of the Asos Paints by Ciate when I eventually got around to doing the...

Today's giveaway is for 4 books from Dover Publications with clothing from the 1800s - 1890s. These books are great to have for helping ...

The winner of the "Vintage Fashions" magazines is FairyFiligree ! Congratulations! I'll be in touch to arrange shipment of you...

Here is a deal for my UK and international ladies. Models Own It is having a 3-day sale starting tomorrow, with code FIFTYFIFTY. Shipping is...

Mariano Fortuny was born in 1871 in Grenada, Spain. His father died when he was three, and the family then moved to Paris, where Fortuny st...

Mac All Ages, All Races, All Sexes Swatches and Review. The idea behind this collection was brilliant, universal shades in which everyone ca...

So Orly is having a sale on Billion Dollar Babes, which should be a boon for my US ladies! Nail lacquers are $3 each, and you can get sets o...

Smashbox Heartbreaker Collection . Just in time for Valentine's Day Smashbox brings us the Heartbreaker collection , because ever girl ...

I hate celebrities. Remember when I blogged about how NARS and Christina Aguilera were ganging up against me here ? Well, someone told me th...

It's the end of January. About this time every year, I start to get tired of cold weather and wish for tropical breezes through open wi...

No commentary today. Just some pretty faces from 1960. Enjoy!