What Are The Similarities Between World War II Fashion And Clothing

World War II Fashion and Clothing I have a strong belief that clothing is a way to express yourself, its part of your identity and it plays a big part in the well being of your life. World War II had an effect on people’s everyday life in several different countries. Culture was impacted because of the limited resources and the strong war efforts. The majority of resources, money, and energy were put into the war by all of the countries in it. Clothing was something that was restricted because of the resources available. My project shows how clothing and fashion were affected because of the rationing. The time period signified the darkness the war put on the people.
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It started by them by law having to be identified by wearing a yellow star of David on their clothing. The star had “Jude” written across of it and was used to identify the Jews which led to their starvation and horrible deaths. Eventually all the Jews that weren’t in hiding were taken to some sort of imprisonment or concentration camp. When the Jewish people entered concentration camps they had their everyday clothes like a woman's dress or a men’s trousers taken away. They were given striped suit often called pajamas. They were given new clothes around every six weeks, they slept and worked in them. The suit had a number you were identified by and a symbol of why you were imprisoned. Not only Jewish people were imprisoned. Homosexuals, criminals, political leaders, and people of other races were also imprisoned. They were given wooden clogs to wear which were very uncomfortable and made infectious blisters. People of Japanese heritage living in the United States were imprisoned to make sure they weren’t spies or wouldn’t turn on their country after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. The Japanese Internment camps were in America and Japanese Americans were forced to live in them during the war. Japanese Americans were not trusted and had strong racial tension against them. They were allowed to bring one suitcase and were allowed to wear whatever they wanted. The last camp was evacuated
Women rejoiced in the freedom of no frills wartime austerity. Christian Dior had a “New Look” of narrow waists and padded hips and bust to accentuate curves. On July 5, 1946 in Paris when the bikini was first introduced by Louis Reard and Jacques Heim. No model wanted to have the job of the first person to show the new swimsuit, nude modelist Micheline Bernardini did it. It was named the Bikini Atoll after the place where atomic bomb testing was being done for the war. The bikini was introduced and hit the U.S market in 1947. People thought of it as immodest and it caused a great