When the Great Depression arrived in the 1930’s it impacted America in a huge way. For starters, people could no longer afford exotic fashions for a snazzy night on the town and was left to returned more a to a basic style of design for women’s fashion.(Nash,4) Most of the exotic fashions were tested in the 1920’s so for 1930’2 they returned backed to a modest approach. For example, their skirts length became lower. The certain style in this time was the long slim look. The clothing was softly shaped, with easy graceful lines.…
In this period, people began to have open-minded on women’s dresses. When women dressed up, they were likely to mix with jacket or sweaters to demonstrated the layer of the outfit. Women in this period felt more comfortable than before because the waistline dropped to natural…
Women’s role were very different compared to the men. During the 1950s, women were expected to do everything around the house, while men worked. Females were thought to clean the house, prepare coffee for the men before they woke up, and wait for the husband to come home from work. Before this, women were running industries while the men were off fighting WWII. Women were not happy with the lives they had to live because they had to relive the same day everyday.…
However, other than the obvious rising hemlines and bobbed hair, women’s fashion was also revolutionized through the growing adoption of trousers in different aspects of the…
Bye Beautiful - Fashion in the 60's In the novel Bye Beautiful, written by Julia Lawrinson 2006, the fashion is quite different to how it is these days. In the early 1960's, women's fashion was making the change from the conservative look of the 50's, to the more carefree look of the 60's. New various trends were beginning to come about, such as the bikini which became popular in 1963 after it was included in a music video. These pictures here are of the conservative look.…
The dresses weren’t elongated anymore, they were short dresses that came up above the knees. Before, dresses would show off curves, but now they came straight down. With all these transformations happening attitudes started to change…
Victoria and Albert Museum, 2018. Marked by sweeping social change, the 1960s is a decade that still holds a special significance, seeing traditional hierarchies begin to dissolve and make way for the birth of the modern age.. [Online] Available at: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/an-introduction-to-1960s-fashion [Accessed…
Fashion has always been a clear marker for change in history. In the nineteenth century, many change occurred: new means of transportations, changing work environment and new societal demeanour could be observed in New York City. The advent of ready-made clothing brought the different classes closer to one another and this change in style reflected the changing mores of society concerning the place of women in the city. The growing industry, opening of shopping malls and the subsequent changing habits helped define the “new woman” as their position in society and toward the men shifted. For starters fashion had always been a means to show one’s status to others, with the apparition of shopping malls and the rising of ready-made clothing industry people could now purchase…
The 70’s were known for lots of different things and events. Such as music, fashion, marches, and protest. In the 70’s they had their own fashion style and statements. The 70’s had lots of new famous artist and hit songs that are still known today. Also during this era they had many protest against the Vietnam war and multiple pro equality marches.…
The transition of women’s fashion from a conservative approach into much more sexualized, masculine, and progressive style is a manifestation of key 1920’s themes: materialism as a result of economic prosperity, a rise in the importance of advertising, and feminism. The seductive and masculine fashion and beauty statements of the 1920s sharply contrasted fashion and beauty standards of the 1900’s in that women allowed themselves to transform into multi-dimensional beings beyond the image of the innocent, delicate female that was prevalent in the 1900s. Prior to the Roaring Twenties, female fashion often depicted women as pure, harmless beings. Wearing tight corsets emphasizing a tiny waist and long, bustling skirts, their fashionable outfits were not only extremely conservative (CITE), but also physically restricting; anything other than housework was hard to do. Furthermore, makeup was scarcely applied; women strived for a subtle look, opting to pinch their cheeks instead of wearing…
Past Eras have shown the evolution of the attire women have worn and how throughout the century women wore what society depicted was acceptable. During the 1900s-1920s French designers began to change and modernize clothing by creating clothes that…
Hey ho, Let's go! Have you ever noticed that the 80's were so full of bright, neon colors? Well, just before all the neon went on, the 70's were full of leather jackets and dark, dirty looking clothes. There was a major change in between the two decades. The beginning of the 70's were very dark and angry.…
Dress forms were used to make precise measurements and to keep the dresses in good condition. There were dresses for all times of day, special events, workwear and just every day wear. After the revolution, the corsets were ditched for shorter, flashier, brighter, and lighter fabrics. Clothes became more and more similar. The shapes got narrower and more tight fitting.…
Younger, skinnier women padded out their bosoms and hips in order to look older, and more shapely. Poufy Gibson Girl hairdos of the '00s and '10s were the primary style” (Yelland). The 1910s were a transitional time for clothing style. That S-shape began to diminish remotely and by the 1920s it took a dramatic turn. Women commenced to flatten their busts and hips and unbound their corsets.…
On the 12th February 1947 Christian Dior revolutionised fashion with his ‘La Corolle’ line, and brought back style, after the calamity fashion faced during Second World War. Style, perfectly summed up by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins is “an advanced form of fashion, a consent, a rightness about cloths that distinguishes the would be chic from the real elite.” Style, a fashion paradox, a heightened awareness of decorating the body, as the ultimate expression of oneself, it is about “surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy,” the epitome of what Dior’s New Look created. This study will provide a comprehensive analysis of wartime dress and what the women of the war faced in trying to upkeep their wardrobe, as the…