Another beneficial time to make light blue your ‘goto’ hue?
Blueish is associated with trustworthiness, strength and dependability hence, the light blue power suit since it projects that image of dependability and trustworthiness, says Harrington.
I’d say if you’re going for a job interview or meeting your partner’s parents for the first time. It you think of the way we describe certain emotions, there’s no denying that color and mood are inextricably linked. Slip on a tailored LBD and you instantly feel chic and sexy or pop open a sunny dark yellow umbrella on a gloomy day and a certain amount that sunniness will undoubtedly rub off on you. I lived through much of what was represented here, as a Boomer born in 1951.
Very good interview questions!
So organization by decade is a great presentation of the fashions of the times. However, I learned much here and am very appreciative of this type of a well written article. Seriously. It’s this culture of escapism.
In the course of the daytime, everyone had to be very utilitarian.
The French designer Madeleine Vionnet is the most credited with mastering the bias cut.
Since they wanted that freedom once in a while, they cut back a whole heck of a lot more on everyday dresses and splurged a bit more on their party dress. You should think they’d use less fabric, yet the bias cut actually uses more fabric, since we were in the Depression. Of course they really wanted to live it up, when people went to a party. Hollywood movies in the 1930s are all about escaping the troubles of the economy and everyday life. With that said, socialite Betsy von Furstenberg and friends getting dressed in a Look magazine article from When the strapless dress first became popular, its structural foundation was much stronger compared to modern dresses of stretch fabric.
Via shorpy.com. Just like this set from Right, left, pattern makers like McCall’s and Vogue made the New Look available to middle American women, teenage girls at a ‘highschool’ dance in monochromatic, ‘multitextured’ dresses, circa Via shorpy.com. Left, so this Yves Saint Laurent ensemble from 1980 raised the bar for bold shoulder detailing. Via metmuseum.org. Right, Iman models for YSL’s Rive Gauche line in 1980, that incorporated bright colors and excess fabric just beneath the shoulder line. We turned to super bright and neon colors, in the ’80s, people wanted something fresh and different. Certainly, that we seek for to see what we haven’t seen in a long time, it’s that idea of the fashion cycle so tight party dresses were really popular. Remember, in the 1970s, the colors were really muted and muddy, these earthy rusts and oranges and greens. People wouldn’t even know you wore really similar dress repeatedly, you didn’t have as many parties to go to. You weren’t will be photographed and have your pictures spread around. Now pay attention please. It’s not a big deal when only the people at that event see your dress. So in case you were wealthy enough to have a party dress, the party dress is definitely more casual now, and there’s a much wider various silhouettes and styles.Onehundred years ago, you didn’t own a huge variety.
Since it didn’t matter if you wore very similar dress, most middleclass women would have had one good dress to wear for evening. Weddings, and similar formal occasions.You didn’t have dresses for different occasions.
With more readymade clothing, fashion production became easier and cheaper.
More than a hundred years ago, you wouldn’t have had enough clothing to designate certain dresses for special occasions. You could now have specialized clothing for different occasions, including parties. ‘middle class’ women could consume, the economy was great. Moving into the 1910s and ’20s, we started to see major upward mobility. Party dresses of the 1920s were made for movement, like the designs at left from the National Suit Cloak Co, with their dropped waists and unstructured tops.
Via wikipedia.com.
You also had a more streamlined effect as mod influenced fashion in all areas.
Your party dress was probably a basic, ‘Aline’ shift dress that hung its weight from the upper body. Consequently, the 1960s were like Heck no! Remember, it went straight from the shoulder to the hem, or had a ‘Aline’ effect, it didn’t necessarily hug the bust. It was the first time you had skirts above the knee. Did you hear about something like that before? We’re tired of these usedup, oldfashioned ideas. We’re preparing to focus on the youth of today. Nevertheless, young women wanted to wear short skirts. They’ve been pretty boxy. Considering the above said. Whenever creating an even more stimulating effect when she was dancing, when the garment went into motion, that dress was activated.
Not most of them exist anymore, at least the dresses that were well worn. They should fall apart. Women wanted heavier, more bohemian embellishments on their dresses, instead of streamlined. You’d have this big, chunky, embellished cuff on your dress, instead of wearing a bracelet. Did you know that the 1960s are interesting since you start to see a speeding up of trends. Now look. By the end of the ’60s, mod was almost dead, and fashion had moved onto this very chunky embellishment, especially for party dresses. It’s not that the middleclass woman in America was buying Poiret. Notice, there wasn’t a whole lot of purity in fashion it was an amalgamation of all these cultures rolled into one garment. We have a robe in the Columbia collection that has Japanese ‘kimonostyle’ sleeves, ‘Chinesestyle’ metallic embroidery, and colors that look Indian influenced.
Now this all has a trickle down effect. She’s seeing those looks in magazines, and after that copying them herself.Styles from different Eastern countries were often melded into one garment. They’re climbing in and out of cars more, and so they need a shorter skirt to get in and out unescorted. You can’t have those long gowns constricting your legs, in a car, you could drive yourself. There’s a gentleman or driver to seek for to look super feminine.
Basically the dresses were these boxy, boyish shapes, and to our contemporary eye, that doesn’t look very chic.
They always have to slim them down as the dresses were quite dumpy by today’s standards, when costume designers create garments for movies set in the ’20s.
In the 21st century, we need to see a bit more of the body, and designers weren’t really showing much of it being that women didn’t need to look womanly. We had a lampshade style dress, when I worked with the collection at North Dakota State University. Remember, the lampshade silhouette was pretty avantgarde. Actually, some were less shapely and more ‘sack like’, and after all others had a lampshade look with a hoop around the hip area. You see, clearly this was widespread, she lived in North Dakota, its owner an entirely different kind of silhouette than we’re familiar with, a popular party dress style was a looser tunic worn over a slimmer dress underneath.
Right, therefore this Vionnet gown shows how low cut backs contrasted with excessively low hemlines, even in the Depression era when extra fabric was a true luxury.
Left, with that said, this 1930s advertisement shows the diagonal seams and limited ornamentation of popular biascut dresses. You see, via metmuseum.org. It’s really the first time we see Middle America wearing these cute, strapless, promstyle dresses. This is the case. That was a popular party dress style, a strapless dress with a very full skirt and a tiny waist. For instance, the New Look worked its way down to her, she was buying that trickledown fashion, she was not buying Dior. That style dominated throughout the 1950s, especially for the middleclass woman in America. Publicity stills taken of Norma Shearer (left, in and Jean Harlow (right, in flaunt their sultry, bias cut silk dresses.
Photographer George Hurrell captured the glamour of Old Hollywood styles, that amped up the sex appeal using halter ps and ‘lowcut’ backs.
You can not see corsetry built into a dress anymore, unless you’re buying expensive formalwear.
Did you know that the literal foundation of the garment is of much lower quality, not only are the rhinestones and fabrics cheaper today. Because there was still this notion that the foundation had to be good, they all have ‘built in’ boning, the collection I currently work with has some cheap 1950s dresses, things you would’ve bought at an inexpensive department store. Just in time for the Oscars, WayneGuite helped us compile a gorgeous, ‘decadebydecade’ guide to p party dresses of the 20th century, looks as showstopping day as when they first hit the scene. You should take this seriously. They’ve been wearing mod suits, the Beatles weren’t wearing party dresses.
You had artists like Andy Warhol, and his muses were wearing very mod styles. Accordingly the pop art of that period and the music people listened to were all converging and influencing fashion, and fashion was also influencing them. It was also amidst the first times women were moving more than just their feet when they danced. Then, you need a shorter skirt to do those moves as well as to show off your body while doing them. They’re moving their hips, They’re moving their legs. Nevertheless, they wanted to show off that movement. They have been moving their whole bodies. It will probably have some netting, lace, silk satin, or rayon on it, if the dress was one color. It wasn’t just one fabric and one color. That’s interesting. You definitely see them in the ’50s, mostly small florals, novelty prints got started in the 1940s. They wanted to have some sort of visual variety. Now please pay attention. It’s not anything loud. It’s always small and feminine and pretty.
We recently had a ‘one shoulder’ dress from the ’80s donated to the Columbia collection, and the shoulder with a strap has these giant fabric flowers.
They’re huge, and there’re loads of them.
It’s really cool that they have been bringing very much attention to that one shoulder with all this fabric, It’s a little jarring to the eye today. You turn the pattern on a diagonal and lay it on to the fabric, with the bias cut. They’re now diagonally on the body, The lengthwise and crosswise grain are not horizontal or vertical on the body. It hugs your curves, since there’s more stretch on the bias. Normally, we go from the boxy, boyish shape of the ‘20s to a very womanly shape. A well-known fact that is. It hugs the body more closely since That changes the fit of a garment. You see, when you refer to the Old Hollywood look, generally most people are thinking of the 1930s, and it’s the idea of these silk satins or velvets that cling to the body. Left, Twiggy wears a pink felt shift dress on the cover of Seventeen magazine in Right, Yves Saint Laurent’s Mondrian dress embodies the quintessential mod look, circa Via metmuseum.org.
I think that’s the bane of almost any wedding photographer’s existence.
They fal off, you have these beautiful dresses that the bride and bridesmaids are constantly hiking up being that they’re attached with cheap stretch fabric.
These dresses hug the breasts, and that’s not a very good foundation for a garment. Oftentimes instead of better tailoring or putting in boning or a petersham, nowadays, designers make up a lot through stretch fabrics, that was like a waistband that was put inside a dress to attach the bodice to your waist. Known while meaning they weren’t being held up at the bust it was the woman’s waist and her hips that held up the dress, most strapless dresses in the 1950s were boned and had petershams. Your foundation will be much lower, and there was no need to hike up the dress.