Hi there!
I'm new to the forum, I need someone's expertise in fashion history.
In the book The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester came across this sentence:
"The silhouettes were as different from the mid-nineteenth-century look that was so pervasive right then and also so infantilizing that Estella heard at least one or two exclamations".
As far as the novel itself is about 1940s, it made me curious what "the mid-nineteenth-century look" could actually have to do with all this.
What "the mid-nineteenth-century look" has in common with 1940s?
I would be grateful if you help me out.
thanks!
I'm new to the forum, I need someone's expertise in fashion history.
In the book The Paris Seamstress by Natasha Lester came across this sentence:
"The silhouettes were as different from the mid-nineteenth-century look that was so pervasive right then and also so infantilizing that Estella heard at least one or two exclamations".
As far as the novel itself is about 1940s, it made me curious what "the mid-nineteenth-century look" could actually have to do with all this.
What "the mid-nineteenth-century look" has in common with 1940s?
I would be grateful if you help me out.
thanks!