British Vogue magazine - 23 August 1939 (Vintage Fashion)

British Vogue magazine - 23 August 1939 (Vintage Issue)
Good condition considering age - there is a hole through the top corner of all pages (this would have been attached to the beauty book, which is also supplied) - light dog-earing to top and bottom corner of pages - there is a piece of paper missing from the top corner of the rear cover (see photos) - all pages present within magazine and in very good condition
70 pages

Features:
- Velasquez portrait (by Balenciaga. Lady in red dress) (lovely 1 page sketch)
- Stop-press Paris news (8 pages - black/white photos by Horst)
- Mummy dresses by Paquin (lovely colourful 1 page sketch)
- Cut-away coats (lovely 1 page colour sketch)
- Swathed hips (1 page images)
- Day skirts (2 page black/white photos)
- Well-wrapped up (2 page black/white sketch)
- Red Queen snoods and lock-jaw scarfs (2 page black/white photos)
- Fur headway (1 page black/white images)
-Beaver hats (lovely 1 page colour sketch image)
- Fabrics: new cloths, new colours (2 page fabrics)

- Kyra Nijinska (from the portrait by Oswald Birley) (1 page image)
- The rich are my luxury: a few observations on the cost of being poor (by Olivia Overdrawn) (2¼ pages)
- Moonlight gardens of Ireland (2 page black/white sketches)
- Vogue's spotlight (2 pages)
- Mind your manners (2 page article)
- Woman's place is in the dark room (by M. F. Agha) (2½ pages)
- Labour saving shopping for the woman up in town (2 page article)
- Looking for a job? Look like this... not like this (2 page article)

Vogue Beauty Book
Good condition considering age - there is a hole through the top corner of all pages (and there is still the remains of some cotton black/yellow wool) - there is some age wear around the edges of the cover (see photos)
60 pages

Features:
- Get a sense of proportion: in your figure; in your life (6 pages)
- Hair takes a short cut (2 page hair article)
- Beauty: the shades of night (makeup article) (4 pages)
- Beauty culture as a career (by Fredda Brindley (1 page)
- How much do you know about scent? (2 page quiz)
- Call it Poise (by Claire Trevor) (2 pages)
- Sensational facials (2 pages)
- In the beauty news (2 pages)
- Can you relax? (lovely 2 page article with sketch imagery around article)
- Erase those wrinkles (2 pages exercises to erase those age lines!)
- What are broken veins? (1 page article)