1940s Utility Dress - Glamour Daze https://glamourdaze.com/1940s-utility-dress Vintage Fashion Blog Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:33:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://image.glamourdaze.com/2020/09/cropped-GDsticky-icon-32x32.jpg 1940s Utility Dress - Glamour Daze https://glamourdaze.com/1940s-utility-dress 32 32 Conflicting Portrayals of WW2 Women in the 1940s https://glamourdaze.com/2018/06/conflicting-portrayals-of-ww2-women-in-the-1940s.html Fri, 01 Jun 2018 19:28:59 +0000 https://glamourdaze.com/?p=16898 From unfaithful harlot to plucky Waaf – Conflicting Portrayals of WW2 Women On both sides of the Atlantic, there were many conflicting portrayals of gender roles,  femininity and female sexuality. All of these messages doled out by the official War Office propaganda machine. From the patriotic hard working WAAF, Land Girl and Rosie the Riveter ...

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]]> 1940s Fashion – Evening Frock to Day Frock ! https://glamourdaze.com/2017/01/1940s-fashion-evening-frock-to-day-frock.html Fri, 20 Jan 2017 18:21:17 +0000 https://glamourdaze.com/?p=14709 Wartime utility fashion advice from Pathe 1943 – Fashion expert Anne Edwards shows us how ! That old dance frock is just a waste of good material in wartime. Lets cut the skirt to a daytime length. Out of the piece of material you cut off, you get the yoke and sleeves for your new ...

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]]> A Day in the Life – Two Women in the early 1940s https://glamourdaze.com/2015/11/a-day-in-the-life-two-women-in-the-early-1940s.html https://glamourdaze.com/2015/11/a-day-in-the-life-two-women-in-the-early-1940s.html#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2015 17:25:29 +0000 https://glamourdaze.com/?p=12397 One in wartime Britain, the other in pre-war America 1941 – In late 1941 – quite coincidentally, there were two picture essays of a typical day in the lives of two different women in the 1940s. The first, an American housewife, by the name of Jane Amberg from Kankakee, Illinois.USA. The second, a young British ...

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]]> https://glamourdaze.com/2015/11/a-day-in-the-life-two-women-in-the-early-1940s.html/feed 1 1940s Fashion – Deborah Kerr models the 1942 British Utility Dress https://glamourdaze.com/2013/02/1940s-fashion-deborah-kerr-models-the-1942-british-utility-dress.html https://glamourdaze.com/2013/02/1940s-fashion-deborah-kerr-models-the-1942-british-utility-dress.html#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:30:14 +0000 https://glamourdaze.com/?p=4359 Deborah Kerr models the 1942 British Utility Dress Typical Utility dress of pale blue light woolen, it has double-breasted bodice and pleats in the skirt. Spectator model at 62 shillings and 10d. Everything about it is top flight except the price . Originally published in Picture Post 1942. Text transcription copyright Glamourdaze.com 2013 Look in ...

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