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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]
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.
Black fashion influencers include designers, models, musicians and stylists. Some key figures like Run DMC and the music icons of Motown are well known. Others, like Ann Lowe, have not always ...
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 .
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Unknown (American). [Studio Portrait], 1940s– 50s. Credit - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2015
Betty Grable's famous pin-up photo from 1943. A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society. . Pin-up models are usually glamour models, actresses, or fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal and aesthetic display, known for being pinned onto a w
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 ...