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Forties fashions brings to mind images of Rosie the Riveter's tough overalls and Katharine Hepburn in suits with padded shoulders. To learn more about styles popular during this time period, we searched on "WWII fashion" and found several sites featuring the many faces of women's fashion during the war. Rationed Fashion gives an overview of what American women wore during the war years. This site explains how the U.S. government's L-85 guidelines in 1942 restricted the quantities of cloth that could be used in clothing, greatly impacting the styles of the time. It also points out how fabric shortages led to an increased use of synthetic
materials in fashion. The University of Alaska Fairbanks features an online course about the history of fashion. The course page for WWI to WWII offers images and web links about how these wars affected clothing styles. The same site has page full of photos from the 1940s, featuring everything from what movie stars wore to thrifty sewing patterns to illustrations of wedding gowns. Our web search also lead us to this short, but informative article about 1940s fashion and this page of fashion history web links related to 1940s
style. The above web sites should give you a good snapshot of women's fashions during World War II. If you want to claim some of these looks for yourself, check out your local vintage clothing shops or head back online to one of the many web sites that sell vintage clothing.
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