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What's your favorite era for women's fashion?

posted 10 years ago by Manifest_12
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...and state if you're a guy or a girl.

I'm a guy. I despise Victorian and Edwardian styles and think they do nothing for the female form. Chanel's "boyish" looks were a huge improvement, however I don't think women have ever looked better than they did in the 1940's.

Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine and other 40's actresses just look fantastic. Even an ordinary girl-next-door from that era just looks gorgeous with those hairstyles, esp. blondes. Diane Kruger rocked this style in Inglourious Basterds.

However, I understand that women's fashion in the past was very restrictive (and was even more crushingly conformist than men's) and functioned more to stratify society than to express yourself. So today, I'm all for women wearing the style they want to wear, and I like most all of them! There are few styles that can make a woman look bad (in my eyes), usually these are the ones that deform the natural curves and features of women (corsets, huge wigs, chest implants, fake nails, etc).

What's your favorite era for women's fashion?

[–] velcronewsletter 9 years ago

i like the 30s, (slinky and elegant) 40s (sophisticated and thriftily playful) and 50s (flattering and sexy) best. as well as the variation in dresses (swing, wiggle etc), i like the way that women wore more masculine attire too, like garbo or dietrich or hepburn, masculine clothes on a feminine figure can look great if done right. i much prefer that kind of androgynous like the teddy girls of the 50s than the shapeless style no where i don't always know if the person is male or female

[–] BernadetteButterfly 9 years ago

I like the fifties style, because it was feminine and romantic. Dreamy, puffy skirts with all those petticoats underneath. I wish I'd lived then.

As you asked, I'm a girl. :-)

[–] contreraschz 8 years ago

I think women's clothes look better when they diverge from the male trends, because it emphasizes the sexual dimorphism between the genders. So I like the Victorian/Edwardian style and then I think it sucks from the 20s to the 40s because of the boyish look. Then it becomes feminine again in the 50s until the 80s/90s when it sucks again and then it picks up in the early 2000s.

But then I'm not a woman so I can only judge the clothes for their looks, women should wear what is more comfortable to them of course.