Πέμπτη 13 Σεπτεμβρίου 2018

What do we talk about when we talk about vintage fashion?


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)
 



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