Two women model 1938's trendiest sunglasses: the blinkered look. (📷Alfred Eisenstaedt / LIFE Picture Collection) For more surprising 1930s fashion, check out:
Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt / LIFE Picture Collection via ShutterstockHenry Luce’s goal for LIFE Magazine was, according to its tagline, as much to cover news of lasting consequence as to marvel at cultural curiosities . As one of those curiosities, the world of fashion enjoyed extensive coverage across the five decades the weekly magazine witnessed.was published in November 1936 the remaining years of that decade saw the confluence of a host of influences on fashion.
And as the decade drew to a close, the shadow of war began to reach all the way into the wardrobe., capture a variety of trends, from the saddle shoes of schoolchildren to the continental influence on college students to the formal details that completed a gentleman’s look. And if the occasional strong brow or high-waisted swimsuit looks familiar well, as the saying goes, everything old is new again.June 7, 1937 cover of LIFE magazine.
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