The Glass of Fashion by Cecil Beaton

Author:Cecil Beaton [Beaton, Cecil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8478-4464-7
Publisher: Rizzoli
Published: 2014-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

EDWARD MOLYNEUX

THE THIRTIES’ STANCE

There were a Chicago World’s Fair and a New York World’s Fair, both heralding the beginning of the acceptance of modern architecture with its straight lines, plain materials, and obviation of detail. Interior decorating then went “modern” with a vengeance, but the mass-produced “modern” furniture was to be as impersonal as anything that had previously been turned out by Grand Rapids.

MADELEINE VIONNET, 1953

From the visual viewpoint of clothes, the thirties was undoubtedly a drab period. Perhaps someone may be able to recapture the feeling of excitement that women’s fashions engendered in their day. But looking at them now, one can see only an uninspired modification of the revolution of the twenties: the boyish bob had vanished, but women’s breasts were still flat, and the longer skirts and slightly higher waistlines seem merely mechanical additions to the short, tubular dresses they had displaced.

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