A while ago I got into an argument with a blogger of
vintage fashion, of 1940’s fashion to be exact. She had a post about a night
out with friends. She was wearing a floral dress, a wool coat with a fur collar
and black woolen pantyhose with short boots. I said to her that we, the vintage
lovers, we may go to work on a January cold day wearing boots and a thick pantyhose
because we prefer to remain warm, but we do know that we compromise our elegance
and that in real 1940's there was no elegant woman alive who would do such a thing.
We know for a fact that during World War II, the Parisians were going out wearing
just make-up on their bare legs to imitate silk stockings. So, even today, the elegant women draw the line as
far as the use of thick pantyhose is allowed somewhere in the afternoon, never
for a night out.
The blogger said to me, that I am wrong, wool pantyhose was very
popular during the 1940s, she knew it from a valid source, her grand-mother who
owned a shop and she was selling this item. Of course, at that moment I said
nothing more out of politeness: the blogger is German and she is talking about
Germany during the 1940s.
Yes, it is true that wool pantyhose were largely at use
in Germany, in Poland, in Wisconsin perhaps. The point is that when we talk
about vintage fashion, we mean vintage elegant fashion, therefore what was worn
in Paris mainly and then in London, period. That was where fashion was created,
where all important Haute Couture houses were at, the hat makers, the costume
jewelry manufacturers.
Yes, we know that women who lived in any country of
the World in previous decades were wearing clothes and we know that their clothes
are chronologically considered “vintage”, but this doesn’t mean that those women
were elegant and we must follow their example, their suggestions, their advices.
So, do we all agree that when we talk about vintage
fashion we mean the vintage Parisian fashion and we try to reproduce only the french fashion? I think most of us agree.
(photos of french leg make up products and advertisement)
(photos of french leg make up products and advertisement)
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