1940’S FASHION

Ana Gonzalez

CLAIRE MCCARDELL

Born: Frederick, Maryland, May 24 ,1905. Education: Attended hood college, Maryland, 1923-1925 and Parsons schools of design, New York and Paris 1926-29. Family: Married Irving D. Harris, 1943. Career: Fashion model, knitwear designer.

CLAIRE DESIGN

Her first magazine was , Time magazine in, 1955.

Claire McCardell was well known for her fashion

designer who revolutionized women’s fashion in

America. She was the cover subject  of an article on

the emergence of American fashion in May 2, 1955

issue of the Time Magazine. She was one of the

woman the change fashion .She was amaze when her

magazine came out.

She first worked as a sketch artist

for Townley Frocks, and than she

left to work for Hattie Carnegie,

and then returned to Townley for a

few years as their head designer

and eventually became a partner

in the company. 9,831 of her

sketches created during this time

are now archived in the Fashion

Design History Collection at

the new school  in New York.

Her clothes were functional

and simple with clean lines.

They were considered subtly

sexy with functional

decorations. She utilized

details from men’s work

clothing, such as large

pockets, denim fabric, blue-

jean topstitching, metal rivets

and trouser pleats.

McCardell was inspired by Vienne and Chanel when studying in

Paris in 1926. She designed clothes for her own lifestyle, much

as Chanel did before her. As she was quoted in the article, “I’ve

always designed things I needed myself. It just turns out that

other people need them too.” Many of her pieces were created

out of necessity:. Most importantly, when hampered with too

much luggage on a European trip, she created separates by

designing dresses in parts with interchangeable tops and skirts.

In addition, the tops could also be worn with pants. Her

wardrobe was based on jersey halter neck tops and jersey skirts.

A black cotton hooded coat with three patent-leather buckles down the

front, which McCardell designed about 1949, is astonishingly up to date.

Defining the waist of an unconstructed dress with belt or spaghetti

strings tied around the waist or under the breasts became one of

McCardell's signatures, allowing women, she proclaimed, greater

freedom. Another style, the monastic or monk's dress, fell unfettered

from the shoulders, suited every body shape and was a look McCardell

would return to frequently.

 It was blue, had a surplice neckline and came with a matching oven

mitt.

THE PAGES

http://

msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/mcca

rdell.html

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www.nytimes.com/1998/11/17/style/celebrating-claire-mccar

dell.html

www.pinterest.com/HistoiredeMode/claire-mccardell/

http://www.fashionillustrationtribe.com/member-area/

claire-mccardell-museum-visit/

“ARE YOU CONSTANTLY

TORMENTED WITH THE THOUGH”

She made this book not

only because she was a

designer but because her

self, as normal woman

she use to ask her self

the same question what

should wear.

Her designs are still alive even now in 2014 some

woman still wear. It might be a little different but we

still see it. We also know that she started like a

photographer when she was a young woman .

Claire McCardell resembles an easy, confident,

athletic American woman, free and optimistic an

easy.

THE ANCIENT GREEK

GREEK

The Doric chiton was on the most common

garment worn by both men and women in Greece

during the sixth and early fifth centuries, the chiton

was a kind of tunic formed by folding wrapping a

single rectangular piece of fabric around the body.

Most Greeks clothing was created simply and some

of them were design elegantly.

Once it was pinned at the

shoulders, the chiton

could be belted to

increase the drapery

effect. Both men and

women draped the Doric

chiton artistically, but

men often wore it pinned

at the only one shoulder

leaving the other

shoulder bare.

Another feminine style involved wrapping one long

belt around the body and crossing it between the

breast or across the back that’s how most people use

to wearer so that way it would give like a figure to

there body.

Because much of the information about Greek

about Greek fashion marble statues, many people

have long assumed that ancient Greeks dressed

mainly in white

2014 we still use the Ancient Greek fashion no

matter if its on a dress, or on a shirt but still use it

and we still see it. The old fashion its coming back,

We are bring it back to our time or live

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Theirs 9 designers that keep Greek fashion with

a little of unusual design and high production

values to create unique contemporary clothe

that throw out the years it keeps coming back to

live, we keep using it with out notice it.

Ancient Greek clothing was typically homemade and the

same piece of homespun fabric that was used as a type of

garment, or blanket. From Greek vase paintings and

sculptures, we can tell that the fabrics were intensely colored

and usually decorated with intricate designs, Because much

of our knowledge of Greek fashions comes from the marble

sculptures they left behind, many people once thought that

most Greeks wore only white clothes.

Greeks, in fact, loved color and many dyed their clothes, and also

the way that people knew which society they were in, it was because

of the colors they wore. Wealthy aristocrats wore purple clothes dyed

from a species of shellfish or pure white linen robes. Yellow clothes

were worn mostly by women. Black clothes were worn by those

mourning the death of a loved one. Peasants dyed their clothing a

variety of greens, browns, and grays. Soldiers wore dark red

garments to minimize the appearance of blood on the battlefield.