'How to Dress in American 1940s Fashion. Fashion from the 1940s includes several classic elements that you can incorporate into a modern wardrobe. You can dress in the 1940s American wartime look as well as the post-war late-40s look. All you have to do is add a few key items to your wardrobe and know how to pair them together. You\'ll be rocking a fabulous vintage look in no time! Before 1945. Be adaptive. Here are a few trends that were directly affected by materials rationing. Remake what\'s old. Both men and women reused and retailored outfits left over from the 1930s. To accommodate current trends, women would shorten the classic drop-waist of the \'30s silhouette to rest at the more fashionable natural waist. Hemlines were even higher than before! Additionally, as more American men were drafted, women at home remade their left-behind clothing into slim-fitting pants, blouses and jackets to be more usual for the more active lives they had to lead. Utility. Less fabric became the way to go. Less buttons, pleats and zippers were used. Women\'s hemlines were lifted to save on fabric, and their garments kept to a slim cut with little embellishment. For the first time women began wearing pants in masses to increase work safety.Musicians and mobsters wore wide, elaborate zoot suits, but most American men could buy \"victory suits\" that offered no rolled cuffs on the trousers, no sleeve buttons, and no patch pockets, in addition to shorter jackets and narrower trousers. Waistcoats or vests were abandoned in favor of double-breasted suits jackets. Wear plain colors. Brown and green dyes were heavily rationed for use in military uniforms. In response, deep maroon, gray, or undyed white or beige fabrics were available for popular use. Bright neon colors were not seen in clothing because chemical dyes were not used. Give up unnecessary undergarments. Girdles were made scarce by rubber rationing during the war. In response, most women\'s skirts and pants featured elastic waistbands that required no fasteners and could fit a variety of sizes. Undershirts had fallen out of popular fashion for men during the strain of the Great Depression, and after Clark Gable was pictured without one in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night. Get creative. Perhaps the most iconic item to be rationed during the war was women\'s stockings. After both silk and nylon became scarce, women would paint their legs a slightly darker tone and use black liquid eyeliner to draw the usual seam up the back of the leg to give the appearance, from far away, of wearing stockings. Play up the wartime silhouette. As women\'s skirts and dresses became shorter to save on fabric, legs emerged as the most prominent and desirable feature of the early-1940s figure. Additionally, as men and women\'s clothing adhered to slim cuts throughout the body, shoulder pads became popular for both sexes as a way to add interest to the silhouette. Wear war-appropriate shoes. Because rubber was in short supply, wooden pumps and wedge heels gained popularity with American women. To save on shoe leather, peep toes and T-straps became fashionable. Flat, utilitarian shoes were also a practical everyday choice for women working in factories. Pay more attention to hair. Though men\'s haircuts retained much of the slick look they\'d had during the 1930s - or turned to buzz cuts, for enlisted soldiers - women used hairstyles as a way to remain fashionable in spite of textile rationing. Trims were expensive and short hair was hard to tie back at work, long locks were in style. The hat market in the 1940s was dominated by Europeans, American women began to favor smaller hats or no hats at all. Complicated styles -such as victory rolls, pin curls or finger waves - were popular, as were ribbons, headbands and other embellishments. READ MORE https://womensfashionnewcollection.blogspot.com/ Note : Acknowledgements This presentation contains images that were used under a Creative Commons License. Click here to see the full list of images and attributions: https://link.attribute.to/cc/485281 art in fashion,art models,artistic fashion,artistic models,best fall trends,best wearable trends,catwalk,catwalk fashion,catwalk models,catwalk show,fall fashion,fall fashion trends,fall fashion trends to wear,fall haul,fall outfit ideas,fall outfits,fall style,falltrends,fall try on haul,fashion,fashion art,fashion fall trends,fashion hacks,fashion mistakes,fashion models,fashion secrets,fashion show,fashion tips,fashion trends,fashion tricks,high fashion,mens fashion mistakes,ready to wear,testing fashion trends,top fall fashion trends,ways to look good,wearable fall trends,wearable trends,winter trends,women fashion'
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