For the first time in Western fashion history, dresses skimmed a body that wasn’t sheathed in a sculpting base layer. Though the 1930s woman may have used a pliable girdle to smooth things out ...

The world of fashion is no exception, and the 1930s turned the page on the Roaring Twenties. Even though the Great Depression of the 1930s was one of the darkest periods in American history ...

Add to that the blast of power shoulders and sexy slips at Givenchy for pre-fall 2019, plus the recent Night and Day: 1930s Fashion and Photographs exhibition at London’s Fashion and Textiles Museum, ...

At the start of the decade, following the fallout from the Great Depression in America, 1930s fashion as well as all other aspects of normality were profoundly changed. Not earmarked as ...

As one of those curiosities, the world of fashion enjoyed extensive coverage across the five decades the magazine witnessed. Though LIFE only caught the tail end of the 1930s—its first issue was ...

Despite dismal economic circumstances, fashion made great technological and aesthetic advances in the 1930s, says Patricia Mears, co-editor of the book “Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of ...

1930s style was heavily influenced by the Great ... It was during this time that film costume began to influence fashion. Joan Crawford's puff-sleeved Letty Lynton gown and Vivien Leigh's tiered ...

“Clothes are literally moulded to the women’s body.” For the first time in Western fashion history, dresses skimmed a body that wasn’t sheathed in a sculpting base layer. Though the 1930s woman may ...