Making Vintage 1940s Clothes for Women E-Book

Sarah Magill

• Herausgeber: Crowood
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The 1940s were an iconic period of women's dress history, with the familiar square shoulders, crepe tea dresses and seamed stockings paired with red lips, victory curls and head scarves. This book explains the period's sewing techniques and makes a range of 1940s outfits to recreate the look of those vintage years. With detailed step-by-step instruction and over 300 photographs, it captures the style of the time and explains the impact of wartime austerity on the cut and construction of women's dress. Contents include: historical context and details of government regulations of the time; instructions and patterns for recreating a range of women's clothes, including blouses, skirts, slacks, shirt frocks, evening dress and tea dresses; key techniques such as transfering pattern markings, making darts, fastenings and finishing touches; examples of how to complete the look with hairstyles, make-up, shoes and accessories. This new book will help you recreate the clothes and the vintage style of the 1940s 'make do' years, and will be of particular interest to costume designers, fashion designers and students, dress historians, historic revival and reenactment participants and home dressmakers with a general interest in vintage dress. Superbly illustrated with 331 photographs and patterns.

Leseprobe

Making Vintage

1940s

CLOTHES FOR WOMEN

SARAH MAGILL

THE CROWOOD PRESS

First published in 2017 by

The Crowood Press Ltd

Ramsbury, Marlborough

Wiltshire SN8 2HR

www.crowood.com

This e-book first published in 2017

© Sarah Magill 2017

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978 1 78500 311 0

Frontispiece: Claire Mashford, on the left, wears a red linen formal day dress with yellow box-pleated trim on the yoke and cuffs (made by Harriet Martin). Georgina Hoare, in the middle, wears a duck-egg, wool-crêpe cocktail dress. The peplum has contrast binding and the dress has been decorated with contrast-lace appliqué (made by Paige McCarthy). Katherine Gibbs, on the right, wears a baby-pink cotton, pin-tucked blouse with contrast binding and buttons. Her skirt is made in a bottle-green linen with an inverted pleat at the front and back (made by Ruth Doulgeris). Photograph by Alex Magill.

All photography by Alex Magill, except where stated otherwise.

Contents

1 Women’s Dress in the 1940s

2 Materials, Equipment and Techniques

3 Blouse

4 Skirt

5 Slacks

6 Shirt Frock

7 Evening Dress

8 Evening Bolero

9 French Knickers

10 Tea Dress

11 Creating the 1940s Look

Bibliography

Suppliers

Acknowledgements

Index

Chapter 1

Women’s Dress in the 1940s

1

The 1940s is an iconic period of women’s dress history, with the familiar square shoulders, crêpe tea dresses and seamed stockings paired with red lips, victory curls and head scarves. However, the manner in which people dress from one decade to the next is not just an individual choice, it is continually influenced by social, technological, political and economic change. The 1940s is a unique and fascinating period of dress history, because those influences are so marked in garments of that time. This is predominantly due to wartime adversity and austerity, but also a result of government directives that dictated production methods and consumption patterns.

Poppy Wright, on the left, wears a cerulean blue wool day dress with contrast red lining, top stitching and buckle (made by Nicole Cuddihy). Alexandra Cooper, on the right, wears a printed ochre cotton lawn blouse with bound neckline and cuffs in navy. Her grey wool skirt has inverted pleats front and back (made by Elizabeth Webb).