Womans Fashion: More From Mental_Floss
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Women in breeches still ok a while to catch on.
It was the 70’s that put slacks, pantsuits on women in the office or any place else for that matter.
Women wore dresses, especially if you worked in an office or it was just accepted as fashion to wear dresses out formally, ‘semi formal’. I’m not a big gift giver. Showing YOU how to wear your dresses, pants, and favorite shirtsmany different ways. Normally, you’re… Continue Reading → Three Ways Rock a Sweater this Winter It’s December and it’s time that you layer up. Winter outfits comes with a fewchallenges. Certainly, snakeskin Tunic+Liquid Leggings Before I jump into this snakeskin tunic look… Today is the day I get to announce the big Pampered Photoshoot Giveaway winner! Fact, I was following Lottie Belle Lingerie for the… Continue Reading → What to Gift Your BFF Forthe Holidays My girl friends are some amount of my favorite people to shop for. With that said, this not only helps you… Continue Reading → Lingerie That is Comfortable and Gives Back to the Community the majority of you know I love anything that melds fashion and philanthropy.
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Wear Your Printed Dress from Day to Night You know I love wearing my clothesmultiple ways. Actually, it’s easy to get… Continue Reading → Animal Instinctfor the Holidays. How can you stay a ladywhen you are completely coveredand feeling nothing except fluffy. Congratulations to Jess Poe! Bonus points go to companies thatmix in comfort and fun. Previously, pants were considered unacceptable for women in most situations until the war required so many women to enter the workforce, where pants were much more suitable. Previously, there was a strict mourning dress code until so many people had died in the war that wearing mourning clothes every now and then was impractical. Good stuff. Really interesting how so many cultural norms shifted because of this war. It’s a well without any reason given here. Apparently. Of course previously, women never cut their hair until they needed to keep it free of lice, and hereupon it was time to grab the scissors. One London woman attached a ‘ready curled’ hair fringe to her boudoir cap to save hairdressing time during a raid. So, appearances still counted, even when rushing out into the street during a ‘nighttime’ Zeppelin bomb attack.
Magazines advertised newly popular silk pajamas instead of homey cotton nightgowns.
It was easier to keep clean and free of lice.
It also started the trend for bobbed and bingled hair in the 1920s. While claiming to contain real isotopes of radium, as used by scientist Madame Curie, radium hair nic was also sold. Basically, cropped hair found favor in the war, particularly for nurses and ambulance drivers near the front line. Just keep reading.a Royal princess saw Sandes presented to Queen Mary and sighed, I wish I could wear clothes like that. Considering the above said. Yorkshireborn’ nurse Flora Sandes was a solitary woman officially to join a Allied army in combat. Highly decorated and respected, she rose to the rank of SergeantMajor in the Serbian Army wearing full male uniform. Cosmetic pioneers Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden both opened beauty salons in NYC in Rubinstein’s marketing campaign in 1918 Vogue problems promoted her products as antidotes to the wrinkles and gloom caused by wartime struggles.
Full, traditional 19thcenturystyle mourning requiring unremitting blackish and social exclusion was impractical and depressing in wartime.
Instead, everyday clothes were dyed blackish and blackish armbands were sold by city street vendors.
Courtauld’s, leading manufacturers of mourning crape, turned their attention to buying up patents for modern manmade fabrics similar to rayon. Very few women wore widow’s caps of blackish crape with sheer silk veils. International couturier and Titanic survivor Lady Lucy Duff Gordon travelled to NY to promote her luxury styles and to tell American women that economizing on fashion was unpatriotic. She revolutionized the use of soft jersey fabric, and followed a wartime trend wards looser lessfitted clothes. Essentially, in 1915, Gabrielle Coco Chanel opened her second dress boutique in the South of France. She said, the men don’t look for to come home to frumps, right after all. War enouraged a break down in chaperonage for young women and a sharp live for the moment ethos.
These were usually homemade smocks, worn over pregnancy corsets to support the bump.
One young mother was that gives costume in context presentations to more than 15000 people across the UK each year. On p of that, whenever proving ugh opponents for the p male soccer teams, they ured North America in 1922. Now let me tell you something. Whenever playing to packed out stadiums, munition workers raised huge sums of money for hospital charities.
Soccer was the most popular women’s sport of the war in Britain. I am sure that the most famous team were the Dick, Kerr’s Ladies who played in shorts and jerseys like the chaps. Women had to step into the breach and the breeches, with so many men leaving industrial and agricultural employment to join the military. Bifurcated garments for females were a startling innovation which some thought immodest. While journalist Dorothy Lawrence struggled to work out how to put her new trousers on when she disguised herself as a British Tommy in case you are going to report on front line conditions, society girl Vita ‘Sackville West’ loved the newfound freedom provided by breeches.
In Great War Fashion.
Tales from the History Wardrobe, Lucy Adlington examines the story of women throughout the first World War as ld by their wardrobes.
Author gave us a few highlights. Skirts widened exuberantly that they needed layers of petticoats, ‘Victorianstyle’ hoops known as the kriegskrinolin, or war crinoline, as a reaction to austerity and anxiety. Notice that wartime economizing couldn’t vanquish fashion. Hemlines also rose to allow more freedom of movement, and to show off neat boots and ‘welldarned’ stockings. In addition to the famous 1914 patent for the Caresse Crosby brassiere, made from silk. Or denim jean, they sat just under the bust and inspired designs for ‘bust bodices’ to cover the bosom. Most wartime women wore corsets in normal lifetime and for war work. That said, she asked a friend for help, the teapot has arrived.The wife gave birth to twins. So didn’t know how to let her husband know in an appropriately discreet manner. One with and one without spout, The teapot has arrived. Anyway, one of my distant relatives did even better. Did you know that the last time he was home before the birth he came up with a code the wife could use to let him know the baby was born, he didn’t look for all his shipmates to know about the baby.
