1940s everyday fashion

Two sisters, my mother and aunt, Clara and Vilma, dressed in the latest style. Taken in the Bronx, New York in the late 1940's. They were named for Clara Bow and Vilma Bánky. Homemade dresses. The houses in front of the house haven't been built yet. And there were still no houses behind us. Behind the girls, my grandfather built a large grape arbor, basically a city lot size, from which he produced what may have been the world's worst wine. The driveway that leads away on the left was turned…

Not really impress, these '40s dresses made us feel uncomfortable, and furthermore they also made young women look older. Check out this pho...

A colorful insight to the 1940s - These luscious color photographs of women in the 1940s reside in the National Geographic Creative website where you can license high resolution images. Glamourdaze honed in on two

Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story, 1940; The idealized silhouette of the time was broad shoulders, tiny waist, and full hips yet women still maintained a natural look and waistline. Katharine is wearing a gingham dress that has a peter pan collar (popular in the 60s) with a corset over the top (popular style in 2016). Source: Marie Claire (“We highlight the key moments for 1940s fashion”)

In a nutshell, 1940s women’s fashion was about creating an hourglass silhouette with masculine details: padded shoulders, nipped in high wai...

What is in your closet? The number of clothing we have today is massive compared to the limited wardrobes in the 1940s. With smaller incomes, higher quality clothing, less variety of clothing, and more home sewing skills, the pre-fast fashion years were one of careful planning and dedication to wearing clothes out completely. So, what

The term ‘teenager’ was coined in 1941, and Seventeen magazine printed its first issue in 1944, showing off young teenager-targeted clothin...

Katharine Trousers in beige dogtooth by Vivien of Holloway. These reproduction dogtooth Katharine Trousers are my absolute vintage dream come true! I have wanted a pair of old-Hollywood 1940s style…

If one thing about fashion of the 1940s is for certain, it’s that the trends in America were influenced by the pressures of World War II.