#1940s

[vintagecamping]

A Chevrolet Fleetmaster aka the "Woodie Wagon" squeezes through the Tunnel Tree. Sequoia National Park

1949

[thecinamonroe]

Marilyn Monroe, then Norma Jeane, photographed by Andre de Dienes at Death Valley, 1945.

[fashionsfromhistory]

Dress

Gilbert Adrian (Los Angeles, California)

c.1947

LACMA (Accession Number: 56.14.3a-b)

[lasagnebats]

found out The Riddler was first introduced in 1948, so i thought it would be fun to draw him in fashion inspired from that era. he probably says "dapper" and "chap" a lot

[undr]

Bert Hardy. A second-hand clothes shop in Gorbals. 1948

[inthedarktrees]

Jane Greer dreaming she is pursued by the ghosts of three actors she has to bump off in her forthcoming movie, Out of the Past.

Peter Stackpole, “Jane Greer,” Life, Jun 2, 1947

[random-brushstrokes]

František Drtikol - The journey to the light (1943)

[clarulitas]

Fred Astaire BROADWAY MELODY OF 1940 (1940) dir. Norman Taurog

[adventurelandia]

Defense Against Invasion (1946)

[grusinskayas]

Margaret Landry in The Leopard Man (1943) dir. Jacques Tourneur

[retropopcult]

Actress Joan Leslie in a posed photograph, April 1941. Original photograph by Gene Lester, colorized by Reddit user Ectheow

[theworldatwar]

Operation Barbarossa gets underway. German soldiers await the order to advance - 22nd June 1941

[fashionsfromhistory]

Skirt Suit

Rahvis (London, England)

1948

Victoria & Albert Museum (Accession number: T.486:1, 2-1996)

[weight-much-front-will]

https://stephanie-601.szhdyy.com.cn/vf/rSsXd6A

[dozydawn]

Marcelle Dormoy HC SS 1947.

Illustration by André Delfau.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lovers meet where they can, 1942.

Edit: A couple of people wrote that they thought this was a mother and daughter, and now I see the older woman’s skirt! I’d looked only at her head and upper body and thought she looked like a man. But I suppose they could have been lovers anyway. 😀

Photo: Helen Levitt via the Museum of Contemporary Art