retro fashion history

1949 Fashion and Vintage Clothing Three big fashion trends which developed during 1949 promised to enjoy a long fashion cycle: (1) The desire for a more casual life led to a worldwide revival of casual fashions, running through every classification of wearing apparel. This trend also showed a reaction against very dressy clothes which had prevailed since the end of World War II. Women wanted more functional clothes. The cost of clothing was so high they preferred undated fashions that would live longer, too. Thus they revived fashions in traditionally casual fabrics: beautiful tweeds; soft fleeces in cashmere, camel's hair, or wool; and fine worsted jerseys and tweed-like worsteds for suits and dresses.