1930s Revisted
“Oh Dahling – What recession?” – sigh the models from It’s a Madcap World in Vogue’s February 2009 issue. How apropos that designers, stylists and photographers alike have drawn inspiration from an era where the stock market was just as bleak, yet the fashion was as just as important.
The 1930s marked a time where the depressed economy reflected the world of dress as it has done today. It drew in the flimsy fitted flapper designs of the slapdash 1920s and formed a more conservative silhouette with immaculate tailoring in both their day and evening wear. We are seeing tighter lines today, compared to the Roman togas Rachel Zoe had everyone wearing a few years ago, particularly in the latest fall collections. Ironically, the fashion forum in the 1930s had a slightly different prediction for 21st century style. Take a look at this vintage footage where they envisage what dress would be like today. If only they knew that the their style would be our ultimate muse.
Why don’t people have voices like this narrator anymore?