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50+ Glamorous Fashion Photos Of Wenda Parkinson From 1940s and 1950s

Wenda Rogerson was a fashion model, author, and actress. Her film career was concise, and she worked in just one movie: ‘The Passionate Friends (1949)’. Wenda Rogerson married famous photographer Norman Parkinson. She met Norman when she was appearing as a young actress at the Arts Theatre Club. Several of the underpaid actresses supplemented their salaries through occasional fashion modeling. Her beauty and photogenic qualities very inspired Parkinson, he photographed Wenda for several years in various photoshoots, and they eventually fell in love and married. Wenda Parkinson died in 1987. Please have a look at these beautiful photographs of Wenda Parkinson captured by his husband, Norman Parkinson. Vote your favorite one, and don’t forget to share.

#1 Wenda Parkinson wearing a Molyneux satin evening dress, with a 1907 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost, 1950

#5 Wenda Parkinson wearing a Christian Dior hussar-style velvet-and-wool tailleur and black-fox muff in Paris, 1949

#6 Wenda Parkinson wearing a Molyneux satin evening dress,1950

#10 Wenda Parkinson in a white hat in South Africa, 1951

#15 Wenda Parkinson wearing a grey flannel suit and lime-green cap, 1949

#18 Wenda Parkinson photographed in Times Square, 1949

#19 Wenda Parkinson poses at a fruit stall in the South of France, 1949

#22 Wenda Parkinson wearing a Christian Dior hussar-style velvet-and-wool tailleur and fox muff in New York, 1949

#23 Wenda Parkinson in a photo-shoot for Vogue magazine, 1952

#24 Wenda Rogerson in a Hardy Amies short evening dress, 1952

#27 Wenda Parkinson, photographed for Vogue magazine, 1952

#29 Wenda Parkinson photographed in Andalucia, Spain for Vogue magazine, 1954

#31 Wenda Parkinson photographed for Vogue magazine, 1954

#32 Wenda Parkinson wearing a grey gabardine dress in Nairobi, Kenya, South Africa, next to a Hermes aeroplane, 1951

#33 Wenda Parkinson and ostriches, fashion by Spectator Sports in South Africa, 1951

#34 Wenda Parkinson wearing a tweed suit by Hardy Amies, near Rotten Row at Hyde Park Corner, London, 1951

#35 Wenda Parkinson at Howick Falls Underneath the 310-foot (94-metre) sheer drop in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 1951

#36 Wenda Parkinson photographed for a “Country Woman at War” feature in front of St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1942

#37 Wenda Parkinson in a Scottish tweed coat by Aquascutum, 1951

#42 Wenda Parkinson with a cat on her shoulders, 1951

#43 Wenda Parkinson photographed for British Vogue, 1949

#45 Wenda Parkinson photographed for Vogue magazine, 1951

#47 Wenda Parkinson wearing a cashmere twin-set from Women’s Home Industries. In the public bar at Hobnails Inn, Little Washbourne, Gloucestershire, 1951

#48 Wenda Parkinson in a rickshaw, dress by Roter, 1956

#49 Wenda Parkinson in South Africa wearing a Coolie hat, 1951

#51 Wenda Parkinson wearing a dress by Susan Small and is photographed with a mother and her children for Vogue, 1951

#52 Wenda Parkinson and an unknown fashion model in Paris, 1952

#53 Wenda Parkinson wearing a Norman Hartnell gown, 1950

#54 Wenda Parkinson photographed for British Vogue, 1951

#55 Wenda Parkinson wearing a taffeta cocktail dress and silk turban, 1949

#57 Wenda Parkinson photographed with a De Havilland ‘Vampire’ jet fighter wearing a suit and coat, 1951

#59 wenda Parkinson wearing a coat by Aquascutum and hat, 1947

#60 Wenda Parkinson wearing a Simpson’s suit at the Peabody Trust Buildings, Fulham Road, London, 1950

#61 Wenda Parkinson in a classic suit in clerical grey and flannel hat, 1954

Written by Orla Morris

Full-time dress and costume designer, Half Persian half Italian. I still don’t know how to write, but i'm writing and you are reading :)

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