Simplicity Wartime Fashions Aid Home Dressmakers
Wartime fashion favors simplicity over excess with rayon fabrics widely available for home sewers. Light weight textures and practical cuts yield job-ready frocks for everyday wear, commuting, and town activities, using fabrics like spun rayon, crepes, shantungs, and gabardines in dark and pastel colors. The piece highlights shirtwaist dresses, two-piece suits, and bridal daywear silhouettes, noting easy tailoring and smart styling suitable for 1943 summer.
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Western Newspaper Union
Matching Mantilla and Self Fabric Lace Mantilla Dress
The summer style picture presents a street-length dress in pale green rayon crepe with a black lace motif. It includes a matching self-fabric lace mantilla, dramatizing the ensemble concept with ingenuity and resourcefulness.
All White Pique Frocks Trend in Afternoon Dresses
Fashion notes highlight pique in dresses and accessories with all white looks for afternoon frocks graduation gowns and wedding gowns. Trimmed with hand crochet lace and organdy frills the style offers vivid white ensembles and coordinated hat and frock combinations.
Pretty House Frocks Rise From New Home Duties
Women coping with limited help turn to pretty house dresses. Young housewives favor pinafore styles, ruffled accents, and border prints. No iron seersucker button-back pinafores emerge as practical wear for the new domestic routine.
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