She told Newsweek that she "felt like a little kid again" playing dress up—only this time, the princess dresses were real. Her great-grandmother's dates back to the 1930s, so it was very delicate.

“Vionnet started it all,” the article continues, “with her dresses that wrap and cling.” If the 1920s birthed a new Art Deco movement, the 1930s was the era of the neoclassical. And the woman?

From Prada handbags to 1930s vintage dresses: How to shop Alexa Chung's wardrobe on Vinted. By HANNAH SKELLEY FOR YOU MAGAZINE. Published: 09:42 EDT, 24 April 2025 | Updated: 09:42 EDT, 24 April 2025 ...

In the 1930s, Ruth O'Brien, who worked at the Bureau of Home Economics and was the first head of the Textiles and Clothing Division — a US Department of Agriculture department that studied the ...

She told Newsweek that she "felt like a little kid again" playing dress up—only this time, the princess dresses were real. Her great-grandmother's dates back to the 1930s, so it was very delicate.

Though the 1930s woman may have used a pliable girdle to smooth things out, this was not your Victorian-esque paper-mâché-stiff waist-snatcher. Bias-cut gowns (dresses draped at the angle of the grain ...