I can't believe how I let time get away from me! I blame the summer and the nice weather ;)
This post was actually meant to be a 4th of July post, but well, clearly that didn't happen.
I wanted to do a post on the ladies of the WWII era. I've always been so fascinated with the sacrifices they made and their bravery in doing things women before them hadn't done. I also am interested in the fashions of the era and how the war and shortages and rationing created fashion problems.
I just love how the women did this. I know that if it was me, I would definitely need some help from a friend or sister to do this. Can you imagine how tricky it was to get those lines straight enough to look realistic?
Before looking into it some, I also hadn't realize how much hair changed as a result of the new work women were doing. For example I found a video showing how a long style that hung in your face, like Veronica Lake's wasn't good for factory work, hence the victory rolls and hair back in snoods and scarves, or women just simply started sporting shorter hairstyles. Though the non working hairstyles seemed very elaborate to me, which one site I came across explained as since women could have elaborate clothing and other things due to shortages they got creative with.
{WWII Women at Work}I found some amazing pictures in a book showing the way women updated and combined pieces they already had so as not to have to buy more cloth to make more clothes, or to have to go out and buy more clothes, but I just thought it was so fascinating.
{Story and photo}Bit of history geeky post, and maybe information you vintage gals already knew, but hopefully you enjoyed nevertheless ;)
