#1930s fashion
• Coat.
Date: ca. 1930
Medium: Rayon
Marlene Dietrich is detained at a train station in Paris in 1933 for violating the ban on women wearing trousers.
Times Square, New Year’s Eve, 1937.
Couple kissing with surgical masks to prevent infection during a flu epidemic, 1937.
“Please Don’t Kiss Me!” A mom asks not to kiss her baby to avoid catching the flu, 1939.
He attac, he protec, but most of all…he fly as hec.
Clark Gable reading “Gone with the wind” (1930s)
Left: high waisted denim sailor pants ca. 1930s-1940s
Right: women’s wide leg work trousers sold by Pink Boutique UK
Photos of Katharine Hepburn in a playsuit and pants suit from an article about the Broadway production of Philadelphia Story in the April 24, 1939 LIFE magazine.
(source:LIFE archives)
BVD swimsuits ad in the July 1933 Photoplay.
(source:archive.org)
The gentlemen pose in their finery in the Saturday Evening Post, April 12, 1930…