By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com These original vintage wedding photos are mostly from my family from 1939 to 1948. They show how some people in 1940’s Great Britain still managed to have a white wedding in the face of rationing. Later as rationing seemed never ending, women chose to spend their coupons on garments …
The Mood of Britain after the Great War Ended in 1918 War and major disasters have always speeded up change dramatically and created acceptance of cultural changes once unthinkable. During the Great War of 1914-18, fashion came to a standstill. It was a time of uniforms and drab functional clothes even though Paris fashion continued. …