Spring is officially here, which means it’s time for a little wardrobe update.
After a few too many months of chilly temperatures, we’re ready to ditch our bulky sweaters and coats for something a little lighter. And we’re taking some cues from the women of Old Hollywood.
Whatever they were wearing, be it breezy dresses, rompers or jeans, they always looked glamorous. Even when they were playing tennis (and a lot of them apparently did), their outfits were a far cry from the baggy mesh shorts and T-shirts we’d wear today. Luckily, many of the styles the stars of Hollywood’s golden age wore back then are still fairly easy to find at stores like Reformation, Mod Cloth and J.Crew.
Below, check out some of our favorite vintage style moments, the perfect inspiration for crafting your new spring wardrobe:
Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow relaxes on the golf course in 1932.
Myrna Loy
Actress Myrna Loy in a scene from the 1933 movie "When Ladies Meet."
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck in action on the tennis court, 1934.
Lucille Ball
Ball poses in a printed dress in Hollywood, 1936.
Judy Garland
Actress and singer Judy Garland with two pet dogs, circa 1940.
Bette Davis
Bette Davis poses with a flower arrangement, 1940.
Lana Turner
Lana Turner walks down a staircase with her Pekingese dog in Hollywood, California, 1940.
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn, screen and stage star, returns a drive during a friendly game of tennis at the Merion Cricket Club in Philadelphia, 1940.
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong stands on a roof wearing a black and white ensemble, undated.
Jane Russell
Jane Russell, shortly after being chosen for the lead female role in the 1943 film "The Outlaw."
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall in a trouser suit, circa 1945.
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman poses near a rock, circa 1949.
Debbie Reynolds
Actress and singer Debbie Reynolds plays baseball, circa 1950.
Elizabeth Taylor
Actress Elizabeth Taylor sits on a stack of pillows, wearing purple pants and a yellow shirt in this undated photo.
Dorothy Dandridge
A portrait of actress Dorothy Dandridge at home, 1954.
Lucille Ball
Ball wears a matching denim outfit in this photo from 1955.
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot at the Cannes Film Festival in France, 1955.
Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood poses for a portrait at home in Los Angeles, circa 1955.
Dorothy Dandridge
Dandridge poses in front of a poster for her movie "Carmen Jones" in 1955 at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
Gene Tierney
Actress Gene Tierney poses with colorful umbrellas in this undated photo.
Audrey Hepburn
Hepburn rides a bike with dog in basket in this undated photo.
Ginger Rogers
An undated portrait of actress Ginger Rogers in a ruffled dress.
Rita Hayworth
Actress Rita Hayworth, dressed in a white playsuit, sits on a picnic blanket in this undated photo.
Ava Gardner
An undated photo of actress Ava Gardner.
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe sits in shadow against a garden fence, wearing a striped dress, 1954.
Lena Horne
Lena Horne wears a printed top and black skirt in this photo, circa 1942.
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn on a golf course at the Bürgenstock resort, Switzerland, 1954.
Grace Kelly
Grace Kelly, known as Princess Grace of Monaco, stands among the rocks in a photo from around 1955.
Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren in a scene from the 1954 movie "The River Girl."
Elizabeth Taylor
Taylor on location in Indiana for the filming of the American drama "Raintree County," 1956.
Dietrich strolls along Hollywood Street in a gray man's suit with turtleneck sweater in this undated photo, circa 1933.
Katharine Hepburn
An undated portrait of actress Katharine Hepburn wearing a suit, with a cigarette in her hand.
Bette Davis
Bette Davis and her third husband, William Grant Sherry, pushing the airplane "Now Voyager," circa 1947.
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo wears a suit in this undated photo.
Jean Harlow
Actress Jean Harlow in a scene from the 1936 movie "Libeled Lady."
Myrna Loy
Loy wears a man's suit and hat for a publicity photograph before the release of "The Thin Man," in April 1934.
Marlene Dietrich
Dietrich dresses as the tuxedo clad Amy Jolly in the 1930 film "Morocco."
Ruby Keeler
The actress and dancer wears a suit in this undated photo.
Norma Shearer
Shearer photographed in a suit on the beach by her home in an undated photo.
Ginger Rogers
Rogers models a suit in this 1933 photo.
Meg Mundy
Mundy wears a red wool slack suit emblazoned with eagle figure, with white shirt and white turban, surrounded by mythological constellation illustrations in Vogue, 1940.
Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn wears a suit for a press conference in 1952.
Lucille Ball
Ball (seen here with Desi Arnaz) wears a suit in this undated photo taken during for an anniversary party in the 1950s.
Jean Harlow
Harlow seen wearing a suit sometime in the 1930s.
Katharine Hepburn
Hepburn wears a suit on the ice rink at Madison Square Garden in this photo from 1936.
Judy Garland
Garland wears a heavily embellished suit in this photo from 1968.
Hedy Lamarr
Lamarr poses in a suit for Vogue, 1938.
Benita Hume
Hume (with second husband Ronald Coleman) wears a pantsuit with a short sleeved jacket, standing in the garden of their Brentwood, California home in 1940.
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