I found this beautiful old Vogue magazine in an antique shop yesterday! I held it to my breast like a lost child, safely found! WoW! check out the suiting! I will post more pics as I can tear myself away from it. I am near drooling, stupefied by the images of a graceful era long gone. When women wore gloves and hats and had their hair ‘done’. There is one thing about this period of fashion history I don’t like and that’s those FOX stoles women wore. You see them in old movies occasionally. Oh my, (shudder) disgusting… who would wrap a dead animal (including the little head) around her shoulders and sashay off to town thinking she was HOT?? ((shudder again)). Below is some interesting excerpts from 'retro-fashion history' I found online. I have supplied the link in order to credit the site with the information.
Fashion Notes of 1952: “Pleated skirts ruled all dress fashions, from simple daytime to formal evening. Not only skirts but whole dresses 'became pleated, inspired by Fath and Dior, and pleating took every form. Apart from new synthetic fabrics, pleats were smart in shantung, surah, and taffeta ground prints, checked taffetas, and silk crepes a la Dior. All these except the crepes were worn over stiff crinolines in the spring, but fall brought in a trend toward a softer, slimmer silhouette.
Suits and suit dresses, especially in silks, took on a new look with pleated and flared skirts, shorter jackets, bracelet-length sleeves, tiny collars, or cardigan necklines
The box jacket suit began as a high fashion but became popular in the fall. Jackets were in bulky coating zibeline, boucle, or loopy tweed, the skirt (and often the suit or blouse) in a different but color-coordinated yarn-dye flannel, soft wool with fur content, gabardine, or worsted jersey. This fashion immediately "caught on" because the jacket could be worn separately over dresses or with separate skirts, and this double usage had great appeal.
Fashion Notes of 1952: “Pleated skirts ruled all dress fashions, from simple daytime to formal evening. Not only skirts but whole dresses 'became pleated, inspired by Fath and Dior, and pleating took every form. Apart from new synthetic fabrics, pleats were smart in shantung, surah, and taffeta ground prints, checked taffetas, and silk crepes a la Dior. All these except the crepes were worn over stiff crinolines in the spring, but fall brought in a trend toward a softer, slimmer silhouette.
Suits and suit dresses, especially in silks, took on a new look with pleated and flared skirts, shorter jackets, bracelet-length sleeves, tiny collars, or cardigan necklines
The box jacket suit began as a high fashion but became popular in the fall. Jackets were in bulky coating zibeline, boucle, or loopy tweed, the skirt (and often the suit or blouse) in a different but color-coordinated yarn-dye flannel, soft wool with fur content, gabardine, or worsted jersey. This fashion immediately "caught on" because the jacket could be worn separately over dresses or with separate skirts, and this double usage had great appeal.
Color: Red emerged as the big popular demand color all over the country, in every shade, from hats to shoes. Greens showed signs of an incoming trend in the fall, chiefly in emerald tones. Navy enjoyed its accustomed place of top spring color just preceding Easter and demand continued right through fall and winter.
I hopped by from SiTs and saw that you like gardening. This year is my first attempt at a garden *fingers crossed* and I am also just learning to sew! I didn't know to look on ebay for patterns but I will now! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI adore the look on these women's faces. They are not about selling sex like today's models, No these women are selling power! I love it!!!!
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