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Children's clothing in the 1930s and 1940s was heavily impacted by the problems of the era with many families suffering from financial difficulties from the Great Depression and material shortages and rationing during the Second World War. Clothing was frequently homemade with mothers often making garments from other items such as sacks.
Throughout the 1940s, white American views on the zoot suit varied. The jive talk of African American hepcats had spread among white middle class youth in the early 1940s. [33] This began to reduce stress on the origins of the zoot suit as a Black cultural symbol, which made it more acceptable to white Americans. [33]
Despite the presence of more gorgeous melanin on the catwalk, many influencers realized fashion still had a long way to go. The Black in Fashion Council was created in 2020 by Sandrine Charles and ...
It was adopted more widely in African-American society and then later into the mainstream. This style of English dialect peaked in the 1940s. In 1938, jazz bandleader and singer Cab Calloway published the first dictionary by an African-American. This dictionary was specified for jive talk and other phrases that were popular amongst African ...
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Unknown (American). [Studio Portrait], 1940s– 50s. Credit - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2015
Fashion during the 1940s — clothing designed and/or popular in the 1940s. Also fashion designers and clothing companies active during the decade. The main articles for this category are 1930–1945 in Western fashion and 1945–1960 in Western fashion .
Zoot suit fashion found its origins in the urban black scene during the 1940s. [26] This style of clothing cultivated a sense of racial pride and significance; however, the fashion statement soon made its way into the wardrobes of young Southern Californian Mexican Americans, Italians and Filipinos, who became the quintessential wearers of the ...