1940s Women's Fashion

Prada, Forever 21, Gucci, Zara, Tommy Hilfiger, what do all these brand names have in common? They dominate the fashion world today. Even little children are obsessed with clothing. Everyone wears clothes as it is an essential need in today's society. Thus, many events have affected the clothing we have developed in the 2010s. For instance, WWII was a huge occasion that injured many nations in the 1940s. It made counties become alliances and some cut ties. Millions of people died and everything had changed. These changes involve the way we wear clothes. Female clothing styles have been made by the events and people who have changed the world. World War II and Adolf Hitler influenced 1940s women's fashion by what was appropriate in his own eyes,
He didn't have a fashion eye for women and wasn't so open about what women liked. According to Jane Thynne, “He hated make-up – often remarking that lipstick was composed of animal waste – and disapproved of hair dye. Perfume disgusted him, though he bowed to Eva Braun’s enthusiasm for it, and smoking was revolting” (Thynne). That is to say, Hitler gave women many restrictions on what they could look like appearance wise. Makeup and hair dye is supposed to be used for women to feel pretty and fancy themselves up. However, this was a time where women didn't really have a say in anything, it was inequitable. Another example how Hitler shared his viewpoint regarding on how women should appear like is that he thought that women couldn't wear any fur because it ought to involve the killing of animals (“Secrets”). In other words, the Fuhrer was very picky about the appearance of women. Hitler was fine killing off Jewish people, yet he didn't want women to dress in fur because it endangered the lives of animals. He believed that women should have the natural look. “Women's natural maternal instincts would thereby be satisfied, while also allowing them to fulfill the honorable duties of childbearer for the nation, significant consumer, and loyal citizen that Nazi Germany had bestowed upon them” (Guenther) Regarding the quote, Germany thought that women positions were supposed to be
Some may think that Adolf Hitler's viewpoint of women's fashion was wrong, however, nowadays women are trying to do the same thing that he liked. Although people hated him and thought most of his beliefs were wrong. Women are not putting makeup on unless it’s animal tested free, don't wear any animal fur and stopped wearing undergarments. By this reason, the world should believe that Hitler had some reasonable points in female fashion that most people still do today and follow those ideas. Now go out, and share the word that women's clothing went through history in good and bad times. By each decade, styles change, but are influenced by the environments it comes from. Remember that women's clothing in the 1940s has impacted the way we wear clothes