Category Archives: Clothes from 1940s

Clothes from films set during 1940s

Monica Bellucci as Malèna: Beauty, Black and Heels

In Malèna, Monica Bellucci plays an impossible vision of beauty; a woman so striking she is immediately sexualised by all who lay eyes on her.

Clothes on Film chats exclusively to Anna B. Sheppard about her work on Captain America: The First Avenger.

Some of the finest superhero costume design ever committed to film.

This coral pink ensemble encompasses and challenges the absolute femininity of Grace Kelly.

Throughout The Way We Were, Barbra Streisand wears a mix of period authenticity and contemporary fashion.

This is the most fun and elaborate outfit Grace Kelly wears in To Catch a Thief.

The first trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger has bish bash boshed onto the internet.

As worn by Grace Kelly, this floaty, conspicuous dress is an appreciable nod to Dior’s ‘New Look’ of the late 1940s.

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Jackson Pollock spawned a thousand imitators in the art world when he chose to work in denim jeans.

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To be a saboteur you must surely dress like one.

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Carice van Houten is a Resistance beauty of Jean Harlow-esque proportions in an unmissable red halterneck dress.

Only daft final act revelations offer release from Scorsese's cinematic madhouse.