Womens Fashions – About Lucy Adlington
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Beyond those?
It’s about the merchandise making the models look good.
It’s not about the models making the merchandise look good. I have a dear friend who works for a major department store chain. Well, there’s your problem right there! Huge part of their business is women’s apparel. Anyway, with larger models, the real poser was, it’s a problem to make the merchandise look as good, I’m almost sure I was talking with him about this size 14 thing. Yeah. We tried that. In a world where traditional values and roles were in a state of upheaval, people clung to the concept of clothes as a sign of civilisation. With their clothes blasted from their bodies, therefore this was in stark contrast to reports of bodies found in bomb raid aftermaths. One fashion editor raved about her new grey silk pyjamas. Look for a little Zep scare. Anyways, rayon or silk dance dresses were also popular for young ‘partygoers’ wanting to live in the moment.
Extra defiance came from new midwar fashions for shorter, fuller skirts supported by petticoats or hoops.
They also weave gether anxieties about the upheaval caused by the literal impact of war on British soil through naval bombardments, Zeppelin raids, and the new terror of airplane bombings.
Throughout the World War clothes offer abundant evidence of the changes in class structures and women’s roles. Besides, a East End pupil from a wrecked junior school only identified by the unusual shirt button stitched on his cuff just the night before. Typist whose life was saved being that she dashed back to her desk for her handbag during a raid, and so missed the worst of a bomb blast. Small details give a human uch to our understanding of what happened in London’s first Blitz. Mother whose celluloid hair comb caught fire and whose clothes were so set alight. In a further twist in fashion’s tale, plenty of women doing war work were now earning decent wages and they wanted to flaunt their disposable income, even as upper class women gradually wore plainer and shabbier clothes. That said, this ranged from the mild alarm at seeing women dressing in the shelter of London tube stations, to serious scenes of looting and xenophobic mob violence.
