1940s shorts

While there is much to be gleaned from the sartorial inspiration provided by yesteryear starlets and staged mid-century fashion shoots in magazines (and goodness knows I adore both of these things unceasingly), my biggest source of vintage fashion inspiration has - and I believe always will be - the looks that real everyday women like myself were sporting during my favourite decades. I'm intrigued to see how those on a budget dressed, to know how they did their hair, what shoes they opted…

Shorts were not a new item in women's 1940s wardrobes, but they weren't very common. The 1930s style short had a high waist with wide waistband and pleated legs, giving it the look of a tennis skirt/skort. This continued to be the trend in the early 1940s for women gradually slimming the leg and bringing

While girls primarily wore dresses and skirts in the 1940s, very young girls sometimes wore overalls. In the later forties, pinafores were w...

The 1940s were not the first decade to reveal women's legs with a pair of shorts but they did propel it into popularity, especially with you...

Short And Shorts - 1941 LIFE

While there is much to be gleaned from the sartorial inspiration provided by yesteryear starlets and staged mid-century fashion shoots in ma...