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Ferko left the Fralinger pharmacy in 1921 to open his own establishment. He led the "North Philadelphia String Band" for the 1922 parade, but later that year founded his own band, [1] co-founded by Walter Butterworth and Charles Keegan. [4] Ferko first won the string-band division in 1927 with an entry entitled "Cards."
Ebell Society, founded in 1876 in Oakland as the International Academy for the Advancement of Women. The club's purpose was the advancement of women in cultural, industrial and intellectual pursuits. Francisca Club, private women's club in San Francisco; Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, founded 1891. Its second clubhouse building, built in ...
From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S. [1] [2] The term pin-up refers to drawings, paintings, and photographs of semi-nude women and was first attested to in English in 1941. [3] Images of pin-up girls were published in magazines and newspapers. They were also displayed on postcards, lithographs, and ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... move to sidebar hide. 1940s in fashion may refer to: 1930–45 in fashion; 1945–60 in fashion ...
Most women wore skirts at or near knee-length, with simply-cut blouses or shirts and square-shouldered jackets. Popular magazines and pattern companies advised women on how to remake men's suits into smart outfits, since the men were in uniform and the cloth would otherwise sit unused. Eisenhower jackets became popular in this period.
Cigarette girls in Florida in 1956 Cigarette girl at the Bellmansro restaurant in Sweden, 1940. In Europe and the United States, a cigarette girl was an attractive young woman who sold or provided cigarettes from a tray held by a neck strap, a common casual occupation until supplanted by vending machines in the 1950s, especially at nightclubs, but also at restaurants, bars, casinos, and other ...
Micromodels are a type of card model or paper model that was popular during the 1940s and 1950s in the United Kingdom. In 1941, Geoffrey Heighway invented and marketed a new concept in card models. He took the available concept of card models and miniaturized them so that an entire train or building could be wrapped in a packet of post cards.
The term "sweater girl" was made popular in the 1940s and 1950s to describe Hollywood actresses like Lana Turner, Jayne Mansfield, and Jane Russell, who adopted the popular fashion of wearing tight, form-fitting sweaters that emphasized the woman's bustline. [1] [2] The sweater girl trend was not confined to Hollywood and was viewed with alarm ...