Making a Fashion Statement
In the years following World War II, things slowly returned to normal in New Zealand. Soldiers returned home and settled back into regular life; and national sporting teams, like the New Zealand cricket team, got back together and started playing matches again. In the late 1940s, men and women would go to watch these events, men wearing hats and suits and women wearing dresses, hats, and gloves.
Compare the pictures of common clothing from the late 1940s to what you wear now (i.e. in 2017). Are they similar or are they quite different?
On your blog tell us which of the two styles you prefer and why. The pictures above were taken over 65 years ago! What do you think people will be wearing 65 years from now?
65 years ago women wore flurry dresses with gloves and a hat and men wore suits with shiny shoes also a hat
Whats different from 1940s and 2017 is that the girls now wear dresses or jeans with a t-shirt they don't wear gloves. For the mens it like the same because some men just wears jeans with a jumper or like shorts with a shirt.
Kia Ora Sonnia,
ReplyDeleteI agree that the style has definitely changed more for women than it has for men over the past seventy years. I can't quite imagine wearing frilly dresses and corsets to every day, particularly if I was getting ready to go to work. Would you have enjoyed wearing dresses like those pictured in the photo on the right hand side? Would you have enjoyed wearing hats everywhere you went, as well? I don't think that I would enjoy that very much!
Bye for now,
Rachel :)