Sunday, July 29, 2018

1920’s Women’s Fashions

What were women wearing in the late-1920’s?
“Fashion Experts Study Effects 
of World War I”
Fashion experts have been making a study of the world war and what it did to their business. They find, according to reports, that the war brought more sweeping changes in women’s fashions than ever occurred before in any given century.
      Here are some of the results chargeable to it: 
  • It cut a foot or so off the dress of all the women in Christendom. 
  • It wrecked the ancient petticoat business. 
  • It plunged the world's textile in dustries into despair. 
  • It abolished big hats, hair nets, whalebones, steel corsets, garters, veils and hatpins. 
According to one fashion expert, “Thus came about the greatest single revolution in dress since fig leaf aprons were abolished.’’
                                                        March 19, 1929

Etiquette Enthusiast, Maura J. Graber, is the the Site Curator for the Georgia-Belle.Blogspot