British Pathe

Turbans Issue Title Is Ways And Means (1942)

Fashion expert Anne Edwards combats hat rationing by making stylish turbans from scarves.

Paris Applauds Latest Fashion Craze (1949)

Weird and wonderful stocking and hat fashions on the Paris cat walk.

Stars Take To Chinchilla For Winter (1949)

Flash fashions in Chinchilla fur from America.

USA AKA Your World In Nine Minutes (1947)

Great story about girls in plastic swim suits frolicking by the pool in sunny America.

They Still Think Of Sunny Days - Somewhere (1941)

Glamorous models wear latest summer fashions on Florida beach.

Keep-Dry Spray Defeats St. Swithin (1948)

New spray makes clothing impervious to water.

June In January (1949)

Fashion show from the Dorchester Hotel. Summer clothes shown in January.

Introducing 'the Vingle' (1942)

Women are encouraged to have short hair so it doesn't get caught in factory machinery.

Hats Ready For Spring (1949)

Various designs of Spring hat on show by Lady Newborough.

Flight Of Fashion (1946)

Mannequins model on a plane, and the latest fashions are seen at Longchamps races. Paris.

Fashions Stress Leap Year Action (1948)

How to get man - American way.

Export Figures Revealed (1948)

Underwear fashion show in Park Lane Hotel, London.

Cows Tail Hair Raiser AKA Cow's Tail Hair Raiser (1946)

Plaits for ladies are made from the hair of cows' tails. London.

British Models In Rio (1941)

British models display latest holiday fashions at Rio de Janeiro.

Bottle Green Replaces Wracs Khaki (1949)

The Women's Royal Army Corps gets a new uniform - very nice Bottle Green.

Beauty School For A.T.S. (1946)

A.T.S. girls train to be hairdressers and beauticians at vocational school in Delamere, Cheshire.

Day To Day Frock Issue Title - Shoulder Arms ! (1943)

Fashion item about how a woman can make the same dress look completely different everyday.

Net Result (1945)

A woman makes stockings out of old hat netting.

People In Camera (1947)

Windmill girls show off a new fashion craze and Pathe show off their new camera lens.

People In Camera (1947)

Skirts get longer in London and a boy sells tiddlers in Kensington Gardens.

People In Camera (1948)

Roundup of the short news around the country.

Hair Switch (1949)

Footage of wig making and the hairstylist Steiner at work. Mayfair, London.

Anne Edwards AKA Glamour Girl (1944)

A day in the life of glamour girl Joan Richards.

Fashion Hints AKA Patchwork & Hats Issue Title - S.O.S. (1942)

Fashion tips for using scraps of old material, and making two hats out of one.

Hats AKA Make And Mend Hats (1942)

Item showing how to make new women's clothes and hats out of men's old ones.

Evening And Day Frock Issue Title Is Hi-De-Hi (1943)

Item showing women how to recycle evening gowns into practical daytime dresses.

Castles In The Air (1946)

Great story shows processes involved in making nylon stockings.

How Girls Pick-Up! (1940)

Great footage of shop girls helping the war effort by working on a farm in their holidays.

Service Into Civvies (1945)

A former Wren goes to buy her first civilian outfit for a job interview.

Something Borrowed (1945)

A Wren borrows a frock from British War Relief wedding dress loan service

Knitting Goes Gay (1945)

Knitted accessories include a fascinator, evening gloves and a jersey.

Sensible Clothes Buying (1942)

Trailer advising people to save their clothing coupons for emergencies only

Bathing Costume AKA Towel Bathing Costume Issue Title - "Free And Easy" (1941)

Actress Wilma Vanne shows how to make a bathing costume out of seven face cloths.

Rations AKA Rationed Rags (1941)

Light-hearted item about clothes rationing.

Make And Mend Trailer AKA Clothing Coupons Trailer (1943)

Trailer urging people to re-style their old clothes and save clothing coupons for the essential.

Nylons (1946)

Reporter Joan Griffiths looks around a nylon factory as stockings are made. Baldock, Herts.

New Hair-Do [sic] Dublin Issue (1942)

Great story shows film star Lana Turner having her gorgeous golden locks cut and set.

Mainly For Women (1948)

Cyril Lord Fashion Show at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.

New Shoes For 1949 (1949)

Varied designs of shoe on show at the Shoe and Leather Fair from Olympia.