Dresses 1930s Don't know about you, but we're feeling a real connection here. Enter your email and get an exclusive code sent to your inbox. Plus, you'll be the first to know about the best deals, new looks, & more! Get 25% off your first order by subscribing to our mailing list. Your browser's Javascript functionality is turned off. Please turn it on so that you can experience the full capabilities of this site. Our vintage style dresses are inspired by original garments, photographs or patterns from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s & 60s. JOIN OUR MAILING LIST for offers and promotions. Vintage Style Dresses inspired by 1930s 1940s 50s & 60s. Late 1930s dress of semisheer rayon with screened print of tiny white hearts. Puff sleeves, notched neckline with small rounded collar. Side zip. No label, no flaws. Petite sizing. Click picture for more images. 35" bust, 26" waist, 40" hips, 16" bodice, 41" long $225.
You are reading an original '1930s - Stylish Thirties' fashion history article by Pauline Weston Thomas at www.fashion-era.com. Ballyhoo Vintage has been in the vintage business for 30 years!. Tomato red bias cut 30s gown with rhinestone collar neckline and back straps. Dress has some flaws, sadly..there are a handful of missing rhinestones, overall shadowy cast to the red textile and some grease marks around the hem (taking it up could eliminate this issue). Click picture for more images. 32" bust, 26" waist, 38" hips, 56" long $315. Delft blue celanese rayon late 30s to early 40s dress with oak leaf and acorn print. Left side snaps, ruched at shoulders, self belt with slide buckle. Missing decorative buttons leaving it open to your imagination (and button collection!). No stains or holes. More images to come. 42" bust, 30" waist, 42" hips, 17" bodice, 43" long $175. Germany receives the Memel territory from Lithuania, occupies what remains of Czechoslovakia, and finally invades the Second Polish Republic, the last of these events resulting in the outbreak of World War II. was getting briefer and the back was scooped out so that women could develop tanned backs to show off at night in the backless and low backed dresses. The colours of the beach holiday were navy, white, cream, grey, black and buff with touches of red. Jet black crepe rayon 30s dress with sections of black silk fringed tassles front and back throughout dress. Slit neckline with hooks and eyes, self belt, snaps up left side and at wrist cuffs. Mid calf length. No label, no flaws. Picture lightened to show detail click picture for more images. 38" bust, 30" waist, 40" hips, 44" long $255. Here we have a photo of Edward VIII wearing plus fours.. And another of Evan my relative following a very similar fashion. For more information about the era between 1930-1939 click below:. 1930s black silk velvet bias cut evening gown with silk sash trimmed at front with goldtone metal mesh accent.
Sash has hooks and eyes. Gown zips up left side, back is a shallow V with 2 strips across that snap to one side. Shirred at shoulder and neckline. Loop and fabric covered buttons up sleeves at wrist. No label, no flaws. Click picture for more images. 34" bust, 28" waist, 40" hips, 53" long $245. Meanwhile, authoritarian regimes emerged in several countries in Europe and South America, in particular the Third Reich in Germany. Germany elected Adolf Hitler, who imposed the Nuremberg Laws, a series of laws which discriminated against Jews and other ethnic minorities. Weaker states such as Ethiopia, China, and Poland were invaded by expansionist world powers, the last of these attacks leading to the outbreak of the World War II on September 1, 1939, despite calls from the League of Nations for worldwide peace. World War II helped end the Great Depression when governments spent money for the war effort. The 1930s also saw a proliferation of new technologies, especially in the fields of intercontinental aviation, radio, and film. Colonial India's Muslim League leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah delivers his " Day of Deliverance " speech on December 2, 1939, calling upon Muslims to begin to engage in civil disobedience against the British colonial government starting on December 12. Jinnah demands redress and resolution to tensions and violence occurring between Muslims and Hindus in India. Jinnah's actions are not supported by the largely Hindu-dominated Indian National Congress whom he had previously closely allied with. The decision is seen as part of an agenda by Jinnah to support the eventual creation of an independent Muslim state called Pakistan from British Empire. Madeleine Vionnet and the Cross Cut Bias Method. After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the largest stock market crash in American history, most of the decade was consumed by an economic downfall called the Great Depression that
had a traumatic effect worldwide, leading to widespread unemployment and poverty, especially in the United States, an economic superpower, and Germany, who had to deal with the reparations regarding World War I. The Dust Bowl (which gives the nickname the Dirty Thirties) in the United States further emphasised the scarcity of wealth. Herbert Hoover worsened the situation with his failed attempt to balance the budget by raising taxes. Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected, as a response, in 1933, and introduced the New Deal. The founding of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the funding of numerous projects (e.g. the Hoover Dam ) helped restore prosperity in the US. The 1936 Edward VIII Abdication and Wallis Simpson the Duchess of Windso r. The Ethiopian Empire is invaded by the Kingdom of Italy during the Second Italo- Abyssinian War from 1935 to 1936. The occupied territory merges with Eritrea and Italian Somaliland into the colony of Italian East Africa. Skirts were frequently longer at the back than the front. Pleats and godets were inset into panels from below the knee and these insets gave more fullness at the hemline. The hemlines reached the bottom of the calf within a year. Some of the clothes were so stylish that they could be worn today. Part of their appeal was the draping fabric that was further enhanced by cutting fabrics on the true cross or the bias grain also quite fashionable at the start of the new millennium. 1939 New York World's Fair, USA displays the pavilions showing art, culture and technology from the whole world. Colombia Peru War (1 September 1932 24 May 1933) fought between the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Peru. homelife and politics have all contributed to lifestyle.