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Fashions from Butterick Fashion News, 1930
Fashions from Altman Magazine, Holiday Number 1930
Australian Home Budget, March 1931
Butterick Fashion News, August 1931
McCall Style News, August 1931
"Of course, this definite liking for wider shoulders is perfectly understandable, because by contrast the waist and hips appear, oh! ever so much slimmer, and that is what we all want, isn't it? This illusion of slimness is just a little trick we have borrowed from masculine tailoringnot that our fashions are anything but feminine in every way."
Weldon's Ladies' Journal, November 1931
Weldon's Ladies' Journal, November 1931
"Cotton materials, as though sensing the all-prevailing need for general economy, are now very smart and tempting-looking. Thus one is able to look both cool and smart with a very little outlay, for there is no reason why cotton frocks should not be worn for many occasions in the hot weather."
Madame Weigel's Journal of Fashion, December 1931
Everylady's Journal, July 1932
McCall Style News, November 1932
"Long skirts and costumes of the 'seventies were in evidence - and even ostrich feathers and fans. Even the coyness had its imitators. But it was so obviously an imitation. The slender-seeming waists were made so, not by savage tight-lacing, but by sheer expensive dressmaking. Tomorrow, on the tennis court, loose-tunic frock would reveal them as the waists of muscular young women of the day, despising all bonds."
Dorothy L. Sayers, Have His Carcase (1932)
MadameWeigel's patterns, 1932.
(In green: Madame Weigel's Paper Patterns, the rest, Madame Weigel's Journal of Fashion.)
Pictorial Printed Patterns, May 1933
Butterick Fashion News, June 1933
Photograph, dated "10 DEC 1934".
(This photograph, taken by a street photographer in Sydney, depicts a group of middle-class women - Christmas shopping perhaps? Though neatly turned out and carefully coordinated, the photograph shows the difference between the stylish models in the magazines, and the somewhat cluttered way the same clothes looked when worn by ordinary women.)
Fashions from Weldon's Pattern Service, 1935
Home Chat, 1935
Le Petit Echo De La Mode, 1935
Australian Home Journal, January 1936
Pictorial Review Fashion Book, Summer 1936
Fashions from McCall Style News, August 1936
Simplicity Fashion Forecast for August 1936
Le Petit Echo de la Mode, 1937
Butterick Fashion News, September 1937
McCall Style News, November 1937
"The two things which have probably made the greatest difference of all are the movies and the mass-production of cheap smart clothes since the war. The youth who leaves school at fourteen and gets a blind-alley job is out of work at twenty, probably for life; but for two pounds ten on the hire-purchase system he can buy for himself a suit which, for a little while and at a distance, looks as though it had been tailored in Savile Row. The girl can look like a fashion plate at an even lower price. You may have three halfpence in your pocket and not a prospect in the world, and only the corner of a leaky bedroom to go home to; but in your new clothes you can stand on the street corner, indulging in a private daydream of yourself as Clark Gable or Greta Garbo..."
George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
Fashions from Butterick Fashion News, June 1938
Butterick Fashion Magazine, Autumn 1938
Le Petit Echo de la Mode, 1938
Le Petit Echo de la Mode, 1939
Australian Home Journal, 1939
"Attractive, well-fitting clothes - not expensive - were available in the stores for those who could not afford Haute Couture. White tie and tails and dinner jackets, along with ball, dinner and cocktail dresses were essential.
The Ugly One: The Childhood Memoirs of Hermoine, Countess of Ramfarly 1913-1939
