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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.