We've never been able to stay away from fashion.. maybe is a vanity thing but we just can't live without it. What better example than the 40's... In times of war, the industry of fashion froze for a while, all the big textile factories closed and became armament factories so the only way for the women to have any contact with fashion was improvising with what they had. For instance, they managed a way of wearing their absent husband's jackets by adapting them to their size, some magazines even had patterns and guides that taught them how to do it.
They also had to figure out a way of using stockings, which back then meant elegance and class but there was simply no way of buying it, they stopped existing for a little while and the women had to use this "liquid stockings" which was basically a cream they had to put on to make everyone believe that you were wearing a real stocking and on top of that they had to draw with a black pencil a thin line on the back of their legs.. you could buy your home kit of "liquid stocking" and do it yourself or go to a special "Salon" and they would do it for you.
Amazing isn't it?
