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TAGGED: Australian women
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Women at the Top: Dr Grace Cuthbert Browne

An excerpt from Women at the Top with Dr Grace Cuthbert Browne, Director of Maternal and Baby Welfare in the NSW Public Health Department.

Produced by Joyce Belfrage, 1959.

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Comparing Kellerman's measurements with Cleopatra and Venus

A black-and-white advertisement for silent film A Daughter of the Gods (Herbert Brenon, USA, 1916). 

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Have you discovered Helen Reddy yet

It’s obvious from this recording that Lillian Roxon prides herself on being able to identify which acts will make it big.

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Schoolgirls model frocks they make

Students from Parramatta Central Home Science High School in Sydney model dresses they have made. The designs are inspired by French fashion.

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Lingerie on ice

Foundation garments for women were popular in the 1950s, bolstered by the fashion for Dior's wasp waists and an exaggerated feminine silhouette.

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Mark Foy's French Mannequin Parade of 1947

French mannequins (models) Lydia Leplat, Janine Lequievre, Suzanne Combe and Maggy Sarragne arrive by sea plane at Rose Bay before performing a runway show at Mark Foy’s department store in 1947.

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Australian Biography: Women

This collection profiles some of the most extraordinary Australian women of our time.

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Mark Foy's French Mannequin Parade of 1947 - excerpt

This is an excerpt from Fashion Parades at Mark Foy’s (1947–56), Film Australia Collection © NFSA.

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Beautiful vintage European fashion at Mark Foy's

Mark Foy's fashion parades from the 1940s and '50s, featuring designers Pierre Balmain and Schiaparelli, captured in gorgeous colour footage.

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Dancing Sarong

A woman in a dress dances to cocktail music as a female voice-over explains the features of the ‘Sarong’ girdle the woman is wearing beneath her clothes.