50s-60s

50s – 60s

Nazi chic is the use of Nazi-era style, imagery, and paraphernalia in clothing and popular culture, especially when used for taboo-breaking or shock value rather than out of genuine sympathies with Nazism.

Its use began in the mid-seventies with the emergence of the punk movement in London: the Sex Pistols' first television appearance occurred with a person of their entourage wearing a swastika.^[1] Nazi chic was later used in the fashion industry in various occasions.

Rations in fashion

Couldn’t have a double breasted jacket

- used too much fabric

You couldn’t have two or five buttons – 2 ONLY

Active schemes to show people what they could wear during the war

The idea of going in to factory work and being able to wear trousers was incredibly liberating for women. They wrote about it in their diaries and magazines. 

Fashion in the ration, 40’s fashion – Imperial War Museum exhibs [they generally

Last year FHT students did a podcast alongside the exhibitions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIjJgTbMMFE

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1990s David Snyder Photographer

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Two titles of Christian Dior’s first show:

La Corale

Figure of 8

More commonly known as ‘The New Look’ by miscommunication

 1947 New Look bar suit

Dior Bar Jacket Clip

https://vimeo.com/54519481

Definition of the coat designed by Raf

Coat with a brass hinged belt, which goes around the outside to define the high waistline. Protruding hips. It has it’s own padded hips also that are worn underneath the coat

Called la corale to draw a direct reference from the flowers and the hips

Lily of the valley was put in the underskirts of the models as good luck