Fashion Silhouettes 1943 - Timeline Drawings
For this webpage I have drawn a variety of 1943 fashion silhouettes capturing
looks found in old magazines such as Le Petit Echo de la Mode, Butterick and
McCall's pattern books of the day. I have redrawn them in my own style
then finally enhanced elements with computer software. These silhouette
costume drawings show just some of the body shape outlines found in
1943
creating costume history detail which also makes them very useful when dating
the fashion history line of vintage dress. Costume drawings, magazine covers and
fashion plates of 1943 all equally act as a source of inspiration for making
your own drawings. Like many costume enthusiasts, I sometimes need a basic
costume history line image for a specific year. These 1940's fashion
illustrations should give you a clear understanding of the changing lines and
variety of silhouettes. As a result you can date a picture within a few
years.
Each thumbnail enlarges to produce an A4 print
and is suitable for colouring in and producing timeline scenes, collage
foundation guides or guidelines for amateur dramatics.
You may use these
1943 fashion history silhouettes below in personal school or college class
projects, but they must not be reproduced in printed book
form matter, as greetings cards, gift wrap etc., nor used as part of any electronic material such as a
CD, DVD, TV show, videos, YouTube topic/video, ebooks,
websites or similar.
You are reading an original 1943 fashion silhouette page drawn by Pauline
Weston Thomas for www.fashion-era.com
2009 ©.
My original detailed text information on the 1940s can be
found in the main section in Utility Clothing
and there are many more 1940s images including the
1940s fashion plates.
1943 Fashion Silhouettes
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You may use these
1943 fashion history silhouettes below in personal school or college class
projects, but they must not be reproduced in printed book
form matter, as greetings cards, gift wrap etc., nor used as part of any electronic material such as a
CD, DVD, TV show, videos, YouTube topic/video, ebooks, websites or similar.
You are reading an original 1943 fashion silhouette page drawn by Pauline
Weston Thomas for www.fashion-era.com
2009-2013©.
By 1943 the suit was am important functioning part of a woman's
everyday wardrobe. It could be dressed up or down and it was practical and warm
to wear. The jacket could hide a less than perfect piece of well worn knitwear
or a threadbare blouse. The jacket line of suits was simple and fairly form
fitting.
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To add interest to 1943 dresses the scallop shape was sometimes used as a
creative button facing. Skirt lengths remained on the knee.
Edge to edge coats like the one illustrated left above
enabled manufacturers to carefully use minimal fabric and sometimes in
quality wool utility garments simply fold under the selvedge or bind it.
The simple sheath evening dress is a straight column of
fabric and with the drop shoulder cap sleeve is one of the easiest and most
economical styles of all to construct. These body outlines are
suitable for creating retro garments of the World War II
era.
You may use these
1943 fashion history silhouettes in personal school or college class
projects, but they must not be reproduced in printed book
form matter, as greetings cards, gift wrap etc., nor used as part of any electronic material such as a
CD, DVD, TV show, videos, YouTube topic/video, ebooks, websites or similar.
You are reading an original 1943 fashion silhouette page drawn by Pauline
Weston Thomas for www.fashion-era.com
2009-2013 ©.
Later this year these images will
appear in a more convenient offline storage format in a
fashion-era PDF format and available for sale here.
Click thumbnails to create
A4 enlargements.
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Date Added 1 July 2009 - Ref:
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