FASHION AND WORLD WAR

Fashion and World War

Introduction

Gender, sensuality, ethnicity, subculture, and even government policies have influenced fashion. Designers continue to try to express their values to change the culture, which, in turn, the value of their designs with more money (Jackson Shaw 2006). Clothing styles represent certain ideas, which represent a culture that wears clothes. Over time, the messages now follows a well-worn fashion lose their meaning and move into new modes that reflect and to offer new fashion statement.

During the Second World War, the fashion industry has been limited due to the solder on the fabric. Fashion centers were interrupted. Men went to war and women filled their jobs on the home front.

The First World War (1914-1918) had a significant impact on women's fashion in the western world. A number of trends that have roots in the decades before the war were rapidly accelerated by wartime conditions (Steele 2005). The most lasting change has happened to women's hemlines. Hems rose from the floor up to the ankles up to the war, rose to the mid-calf length to 1916, and stayed that high and higher still. Hobble skirts were immediately dropped in favor of a little wider, more practical skirt. Several modes of avant-garde, as well as trousers for women, and short hair, was sentenced before the war, as sinful and ugly, were nominated as a practical fashion for war work. Short hair is considered safety measures for certain employees of the plant, and practical significance for women working near the front lines. Several women who were soldiers (mainly in Russia and Serbia) have been presented in international journals pictorial with close-cropped hair and the stories of heroism. Most women do not suddenly cut their hair, but as soon as it became acceptable to do so, gradually, more and more women were in the following decades.

The tendency for female employees to wear feminized versions of men's suits and shirts (the total in 1900) became the de facto standard at this time. Soft V-neckline is the accuracy in 1912-14, while the high-bone cuts, has become a normal day after 1915. Many women were recruited into military organizations from all sides, and put into various forms, which also influenced the shape of fashionable dress. (For more details, see Women and the First World War).

During the war, the dye scarcity, and lack of tissue to encourage certain utilitarian drabness of dress, but the most noticeable change generated by the war was the relaxation of formal rules that are tied dress of men and women's dresses from the beginning of the Victorian era (Conner 2007). Not only the hemlines of women occurs mid-calf length, but even more exciting, ladies wore those short styles with sexy heels and flesh toned silk stockings, not boots button. Young people were more casual "tuxedo" jacket for formal occasions at night, not only with men only functions of the club. Young and ambitious woman threw the corset in favor of ...