eyebrow fashion in period film

It's funny how period pieces made in different eras often manage to date themselves to when they were made. There were a lot of extremely early-90s visuals in early Granada-ITV Poirot, for example, in spite of its (for the most part) adhering to the letter of period wardrobe, makeup, and hair guidelines.


Beth Goddard as Violet Wilson in Agatha Christie’s Poirot #37, “The Case of the Missing Will”, 1993, in a very 1993 makeup palette

I'd say the biggest or most notable thing that always throws me off is the eyebrows on the women.

Obviously, eyebrow shaping fashion has changed over the decades a good deal, and you can quickly find image references with both photos and drawings going back much earlier than the 1930s.


source: 1930s Beauty and Style – Hollywood Eyes

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