Talk:1930–1945 in Western fashion/Archive 1

Origin
Portions of the overviews of men's and women's fashions of the 1930s was moved here from 1920s in fashion; you can see its history there. PKM 03:05, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

More images
The illustrations here are very US-centric at the moment, but there aren't many PD fashion images of this period other than US Library of Congress photos. If you can add good images from these years, please do. - PKM 03:05, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

US Centric
Should this be retitled US fashion of the 1930s to 1940s - or is there an intention to expand this article to include France, Germany, the rest of Europe - and also to mention the mixing of traditonal costume and western costume in Japan and China? 217.42.90.80 19:13, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Reverted
I have reverted this article to the last good version, removing several chunks of text quoted from websites and pasted into the overviews without regard for the structure of the article. - PKM (talk) 03:40, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Fashion
Fashion has grew in many ways! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.111.209.27 (talk) 18:03, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Pselv11 (talk) 18:43, 4 January 2010 (UTC)D oes anyone know what banjo sleeves are? Read it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930–1945_in_fashion.Thanks!

Disney backwards
The photo of Walt Disney in the men's section of this article is reversed; and I followed the link to the source at the LoC, where somebody posted a reverse of the original news photograph. This is not my area of expertise, nor do I want to take time to fool with photographs, but thought I'd mention the problem for someone else who may want to fix it.Textorus (talk) 06:56, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

WTF are banjo sleeves?
The term is used in the opening paragraph but never defined or made use of.

Presumably people are reading the article to find out what these might be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.5.63 (talk) 03:27, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

ideas
Surely pictures of evacuees would be good for children's clothes? lots of pictures on Google as well as pictures of people working in WWII russian peasants and the like

Perhaps could even include army uniforms? Is this counted as fashion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.6.132 (talk) 14:17, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Splitting of eras
I propose that this article be split into two different articles: one on the 1930s (1930-1939) and one on the WW2 era (1939-1945) as there are large differences in the styles of the two eras. Nicole A. Jenkins (talk) 06:58, 15 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not sure there are. Evening gowns were less often backless, and shoulders were more often padded, but most of the differences were due to wartime economy measures.  There was no major fashion "break" or discontinuity until the postwar "New Look". Churchh (talk) 08:57, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Interesting IF you happen to be American
Newsflash - THERE IS A WORLD BEYOND THE FRIGGEN USA!!! Article needs COMPLETELY re-writing by somebody who knows what they're talking about, or just SCRAPPING! USCentric doesn't even BEGIN to cover it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.219.203.7 (talk) 23:54, 14 September 2012 (UTC)


 * The "XXXX in fashion" series is basically about middle-class and upper-class styles of those periods (see History of Western fashion. Localistic peasant clothing (what Germans call "Die Tracht"), and clothing of non-Western cultures not significantly influenced by Western styles, do not show the same regular cycling which Western women's styles do, and are not so suited to be discussed in separate articles decade by decade in the same way. Churchh (talk) 08:57, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

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Introduction to article
Not sure "attention at the arm" really defines this period. People who grew up watching Depression-era movies on late night TV might say that backless evening gowns define the 1930s. Churchh (talk) 09:03, 9 October 2014 (UTC)