No fun can not last forever, abundance replaced scarcity, wealth often gives way to poverty. A good illustration of this axiom can serve 40 years of the twentieth century after the "roaring twenties" and feminine thirties when fashion began to unfold in new ways, the war came and everything changed, the need for beauty and decoration of the image on the backburner. But it often gives rise to a lack of creativity, the results of which are included in the story. So it was with fashion 40s.

The transition from the thirties

Thirties in a fashion associated with the Golden Age of Hollywood and its unequivocal luxury and glamor Glamour - the charm of bad taste . This is the era of cinema, when they were awarded the first "Oscars", the first televisions, and ordinary women who previously could only look at each other, and now admired images of movie stars. Someone could take the example of Hollywood celebrities, trying to even simple dresses decorated with improvised elements - buttons, frills, ruffles, bows. It was an era of burgeoning womanhood, which freed from corsets, giving the fair sex to breathe deeply. But in 1939, war broke out, and fashionable fervor was severely chilled.

Industry started to work on the software front with everything necessary, of any ryushah silks and could no longer be considered. And for someone to decorate themselves, if the men were called to war, and lay on the shoulders of women care more serious than thinking through the selection of evening attire or fashionable handbags for a new dress. On both sides of the Atlantic fell on hard times, but women of any age acted one rule, which is spurred to work on their appearance: the worse the times, the better to look like. That's how it was in the forties.

Military

Military Style predictably become dominant not only for men but also for women. Military present everywhere: blouses, dresses, coats, trench coats were cut, reminiscent of military uniforms, but with the indispensable adjusted for femininity. The latter was expressed in elevated shoulders, take shape "Lantern" in the narrow waist and slightly extended skirt, long reaching to the knee and goes down below. After the era of tissue with a golden glow on the fashion khaki, which was also the clearest symbol of entrenched military style.

One of the most useful acquisitions fashion forties was the dress-shirt, which combines the features of feminine style and comfort, which had to answer all the trends of the period. Forgetting about luxury silk Silk - a legacy of the Yellow Emperor Women are minimalistic outfits from insulated fabrics, comfortable dresses, suits, pencil skirt, which combine with nylon stockings and low-heeled shoes made of wood.

Accessories

The accessories almost used leather, which was needed for the war effort, but women are happy to wear things from new fabrics - velvet, nylon, leatherette, felt. Hats, which was a landmark piece of the 20s and 30s, in the 40s almost completely disappeared from the everyday wardrobe as their production was expensive and very few people available. They were replaced by democratic scarves, knitted berets. Knitted things like clothes and accessories were at a premium because their women to knit for themselves without resorting to the help of dressmakers and fashion designers.

The image of women

France in the twentieth century has been ahead of the rest of the proclamation of the fashion trends. It does not change the situation and in wartime: the occupied country was left without Gabrielle Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli, who emigrated quickly, but other large homes continued to work, though, adjusted to the demands of the Nazi reigning culture with its vision of the perfect woman - mother of the family business. Due to this trend imposed born face fashion forties, which is so valued in the twenty-first century. Rural motifs dress in small flower knee-length hairstyles page with a raised and curled roll back zone at the temples and forehead - an image that has inspired women to thumb through fashion magazines of the time.

New Look

After the war, it took a while for the world to his feet and breathed in deeply. People are tired, not only from war, they are tired of poverty and public deficit. Taking this as a challenge, a young French designer Christian Dior in 1947, presented to the public the newest concept called New Look. It was indeed a new image, which revolutionized the international fashion. Dior was inspired by images of the past, but did not force women to wear tight corsets.

It brought to the fore geometric, which this time was only for the benefit of the female figure, because it emphasizes its natural charms, embodied in silhouette "hourglass". New Look Dior is a set of slim line jackets and skirts, bell, broad-brimmed hat complement the image of a rigid form. Dresses in the style of New Look had a deep cut V-shaped, jackets were fitted with rigid Basques Baska - history and modern fashion accessory , Skirts could be either domed or straight.

On this note Distinguishing Christian Dior fashion closed the topic of crisis 40s and opened its new page, as well as the door to a new era - the ten-year dizzy femininity and sexuality.