British war workers take a seaside break on a beach in Cornwall, 6th September 1943 | 📷 James Jarche | Colour-correction by Stuart Humphryes AKA BabelColour
Taken at Towan Beach, Newquay. Original can be seen HERE
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Lisa Fonssagrives | Dance dress by Maurice Rentner | 📷 John Rawlings | Vogue, February 1946
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Bobby Munroe | Dress and shawl by Adele Simpson | 📷 Louise Dahl-Wolfe | Harper's Bazaar, May 1946
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Marilyn Ambrose | Dress from Bergdorf Goodman | 📷 Kay Bell | Harper's Bazaar, May 1946
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Katherine Cassidy | Dress by Claire McCardell | 📷 John Engstead | Harper's Bazaar, February 1946
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Katherine Cassidy, 1950 | Unbound

    Howard Hawks promised he’d make her a star. But Katherine Cassidy decided to go her own way, and chose modelling — and money — over the movies.     “It’s fine while it lasts,” Marie Icide yawned. “Like many models, I hope to be either a...

Asymmetrical jersey top and white cotton shorts by Norma Jonas | 📷 Genevieve Naylor | Harper's Bazaar, February 1946
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Bijou Barrington | Swimsuit by Townley | 📷 Serge Balkin | Vogue, June 1945
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Marsha Hunt | Swimsuit by Cole of California | 📷 John Engstead | Harper's Bazaar, January 1946
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📷 Serge Balkin | Vogue, January 1947
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Natalie Paine | "Sunning suit" by Carolyn Schnurer | 📷 Toni Frissell | Montego Bay, Jamaica | Harper's Bazaar, 1947
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"The Kneeling One" by William Lehmbruck | Dress by Elizabeth Arden | 📷 John Rawlings | Vogue, July 1945
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Wilhelm Lehmbruck - Wikipedia

Swimsuit by Carolyn Schnurer | 📷 John Rawlings | Vogue, 1947
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Jersey top and skirt by Tina Leser | 📷 Serge Balkin | Harper's Bazaar, January 1946
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Marsha Hunt | Top and bloomers by Caltex | 📷 John Engstead | Harper's Bazaar, January 1946
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Marsha Hunt (actress, born 1917) - Wikipedia

Model in sun-suit by Tina Leser | 📷 Kay Bell | Vogue, January 1945
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Marilyn Ambrose | Dress by Tina Leser | 📷 Kay Bell | Vogue, March 1945
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Kay Bell Reynal - National Portrait Gallery

Fashion photographer Reynal took up photography as the result of a dare in 1943. She was working as an associate editor for Vogue in New York, and was given a camera by the then art director. Two years later she set up a studio in an Eastside...

Skirt and black jersey top from Vogue Design Pattern No.5344 | 📷 Serge Balkin | Vogue, January 1945
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The elegant Fashion Photography of Serge Balkin during the 1940s

Serge Balkin was an award-winning fashion photographer. He worked for Conde Nast Publications for more than twenty years. His photographs were also published in some of the most famous fashion photography magazines, such as Vogue, Glamour, and...

Dress by Claire McCardell | 📷 Constantin Joffé | Background by André Girard | Vogue, December 1944
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Jersey knit halter and shorts by Claire McCardell | 📷 John Rawlings | Vogue, December 1944
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Claire McCardell - Wikipedia

Evening dresses by Molyneux | 📷 Richard Dormer | Harper’s Bazaar UK, February 1949
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