Talk:1930–1945 in Western fashion/Archive 1

Archive 1

Origin

Portions of the overviews of men's and women's fashions of the 1930s was moved here from 1920s in fashion; you can see its history there. PKM 03:05, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

More images

The illustrations here are very US-centric at the moment, but there aren't many PD fashion images of this period other than US Library of Congress photos. If you can add good images from these years, please do. - PKM 03:05, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

US Centric

Should this be retitled US fashion of the 1930s to 1940s - or is there an intention to expand this article to include France, Germany, the rest of Europe - and also to mention the mixing of traditonal costume and western costume in Japan and China? 217.42.90.80 19:13, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Reverted

I have reverted this article to the last good version, removing several chunks of text quoted from websites and pasted into the overviews without regard for the structure of the article. - PKM (talk) 03:40, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Fashion

Fashion has grew in many ways! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.111.209.27 (talk) 18:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Pselv11 (talk) 18:43, 4 January 2010 (UTC)D oes anyone know what banjo sleeves are? Read it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930–1945_in_fashion.Thanks!

Disney backwards

The photo of Walt Disney in the men's section of this article is reversed; and I followed the link to the source at the LoC, where somebody posted a reverse of the original news photograph. This is not my area of expertise, nor do I want to take time to fool with photographs, but thought I'd mention the problem for someone else who may want to fix it.Textorus (talk) 06:56, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

WTF are banjo sleeves?

The term is used in the opening paragraph but never defined or made use of.

Presumably people are reading the article to find out what these might be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.5.63 (talk) 03:27, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

ideas

Surely pictures of evacuees would be good for children's clothes? lots of pictures on Google as well as pictures of people working in WWII russian peasants and the like

Perhaps could even include army uniforms? Is this counted as fashion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.6.132 (talk) 14:17, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Splitting of eras

I propose that this article be split into two different articles: one on the 1930s (1930-1939) and one on the WW2 era (1939-1945) as there are large differences in the styles of the two eras. Nicole A. Jenkins (talk) 06:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Not sure there are. Evening gowns were less often backless, and shoulders were more often padded, but most of the differences were due to wartime economy measures. There was no major fashion "break" or discontinuity until the postwar "New Look". Churchh (talk) 08:57, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Interesting IF you happen to be American

Newsflash - THERE IS A WORLD BEYOND THE FRIGGEN USA!!! Article needs COMPLETELY re-writing by somebody who knows what they're talking about, or just SCRAPPING! USCentric doesn't even BEGIN to cover it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.219.203.7 (talk) 23:54, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

The "XXXX in fashion" series is basically about middle-class and upper-class styles of those periods (see History of Western fashion. Localistic peasant clothing (what Germans call "Die Tracht"), and clothing of non-Western cultures not significantly influenced by Western styles, do not show the same regular cycling which Western women's styles do, and are not so suited to be discussed in separate articles decade by decade in the same way. Churchh (talk) 08:57, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

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Introduction to article

Not sure "attention at the arm" really defines this period. People who grew up watching Depression-era movies on late night TV might say that backless evening gowns define the 1930s. Churchh (talk) 09:03, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

1930s fashion as a reaction to the 1920s reaction against Victorianism-Edwardianism

The women's styles of much of the 1920s (especially around 1925-1928) were based on a reaction against pre-WW1 styles and social norms (i.e. Victorianism and Edwardianism). Much of what is distinctive about 1930s women's styles is based on a partial reaction against this 1920s reaction (the pendulum starting to swing in the other direction). There was no true revival of Victorianism (i.e. corsets and Victorian attitudes about female bodily modesty did not return), but on the other hand the hard edges of the 1920s anti-Victorian reaction softened, and some traditional concepts of femininity were re-established. For example, where the 1920s had a small-breasted ideal, the 1930s returned to a more traditional ideal in that area. In the 1920s, the bob was almost de rigueur, but in the 1930s women had more options with respect to hair styles (including longer hair). In the 1930s, dresses with a defined waistline near the natural waistline and sometimes swirling skirts returned, as opposed to the loose but narrow (quasi-tubular) "flapper" dresses of the 1920s. After the high knee-grazing hemlines of 1927-1928, hemlines returned to lower levels for decades (until the miniskirt era of the second half of the 1960s). Etc. etc... Churchh (talk) 08:57, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

I like this very much. I'd love to see this in the article, with a couple of citations. - PKM (talk) 21:07, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

How does that explain the robe de style and other frilly, pretty romanticised 1920s styles? Not everyone wore a straight tubular chemise or had their hair short. I always get a bit edgy and twitchy about sweeping generalizations about an entire era based on some kind of stereotype of the period. If the 1920s were "anti-Victorian" what was with all the nostalgia for it, on VOGUE covers no less - a lot of those covers are awash with crinolines and poke bonnets and Art Deco-ified Victoriana. So despite the love for modernity, there was also a clear market for period setimentality and prettiness - almost certainly with a healthy dollop of irony and good natured mockery. Re hemlines, I'd note that hemlines were rather uneven in the decade - until about 1923 they were pretty much ankle-skimming, then they went up and down quite a bit - by 1929 they're pretty uneven, long in back and short in front. Plus, knee length skirts reappeared in the 1940s, and I'm pretty sure not JUST because of fabric shortages. There's no shortage of sources pushing the 1920s fashion stereotype though, so I'm just giving my two cents.... Mabalu (talk) 03:25, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

PKM, there probably isn't any source which states things exactly as I did above, but there are many comments in sources about the de-emphasis on curves in the 1920s and a return to curviness in the 1930s, and so on. "Then, as the decade drew to its close, skirts suddenly became long again, and the waist resumed its normal place. It was as if fashion were trying to say 'The party is over, the Bright Young Things are dead.'" (Costume and Fashion, A Concise History by James Laver). The article by Deborah Cohen on the 1930s as the true beginning of modern fashion is also relevant.[1]

Mabalu, I realize that what people wore in real life did not switch with the same abruptness that trends in fashion illustrations did, and that some women who had been Edwardian matrons felt no need to follow the bleeding edge of 1920s fashion changes, but wore much more sedate and less varying clothing. But even so, the main trends of the 1920s were very much in opposition to pre-WW1 norms. The fact that many women in 1927 commonly wore outfits that they might have been arrested for wearing in public in 1907 indicates that there was a very substantial change. According to Frederick Lewis Allen, "In the latter years of the 1920s [in the U.S.] bobbed hair became almost universal among girls in their 20s, very common among women in their 30s and 40s, and by no means rare among women of sixty." For 1920s hemline trends, see the bottom of Talk:Hemline. Churchh (talk) 17:33, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

P.S. The 1932 craze for the "Letty Lynton" dress pretty much marked the final end of the 1920s aesthetic, in the United States at least. Churchh (talk) 04:44, 26 March 2016 (UTC)