On the 12th February 1947 Christian Dior revolutionised fashion with his ‘La Corolle’ line, and brought back style, after the calamity fashion faced during Second World War. Style, perfectly summed up by Annette Tapert and Diana Edkins is “an advanced form of fashion, a consent, a rightness about cloths that distinguishes the would be chic from the real elite.” Style, a fashion paradox, a heightened awareness of decorating the body, as the ultimate expression of oneself, it is about “surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy,” the epitome of what Dior’s New Look created.
This study will provide a comprehensive analysis of wartime dress and what the women of the war faced in trying to upkeep their wardrobe, as the
This study will provide a comprehensive analysis of wartime dress and what the women of the war faced in trying to upkeep their wardrobe, as the