Modern fashion is beautifully illustrated by the many billions of photographs stored on digital media and will become a visual aid to the history of modern fashion in the future. And if you are interested 1940s fashion, everything is much more complicated.

Books and articles on fashion history 1940 years, but now people read less and less often, most prefer to look at photos. And with photographs, everything is not so simple, because then taking a photo was much more difficult than today.

Of course, in the middle of the 20th century there were also fashion magazines with photographs, but they cannot be compared in quality with modern gloss. In addition, the magazines and street fashions of those years may have differed more significantly than they do today.



In addition to the more complex process of photography, the Second World War began in 1939, which forced most European women to forget about fashion for a long time. European, and especially Russian women, dressed in those things that they managed to keep or alter from old outfits.

But in the United States, the Second World War, instead of destruction and death, brought a lot of gold, money and art objects. And in addition to financial receipts, many European designers came to the United States who began to work for the benefit of American fashion. Therefore, in the 1940s, fashion flourished exclusively in the United States. Although even in America there were some restrictions on the use of fabrics.