Women did not show much skin. In the mid 1930s some women also decided they were no longer going to wear hats. Patterns were all the rage and nice, flowing, flowery dresses were the most popular item a woman could wear. Fur was still quite popular, although during the depression most w...
while Lost Horizon, according to Warren Eyster’s afterword in my edition, is a metaphorical utopia offered as an an emotional escape hatch to a readership consisting of those deeply scarred by the Great War and now going through the Great Depression, with another war looming on the horizon. ...
Share your love for The 1930s: The Not-So-Great Depression Toys would be considered quite basic by today’s standards because, for the most part, toys in the 1930s did not utilize electricity. There were some electric train sets, but most kids had stuffed Mickey Mouse dolls, or — if ...
Vintage: Hooverville in New York City (1930s) 30 October 2022 0 Homelessness was present before the Great Depression, and was a common sight before 1929. Most large cities built municipal lodging houses for the homeless, but the Depression exponentially increased demand. The homeless clustered...
What (little) appeal this has it that it's SO 1920s - the story, the songs, the dresses, the attitudes, the cars are so wonderfully different from what you find in 1930s films when the Depression has taken hold. When this was made, the Depression was just something for 'other people...
White also commented on the growing number of travelers, still pinched by the Depression, opting for the free section: We settle in with the June 21 issue (which leads this post) with White once again, this time enjoying a drive to Stamford, Conn., where he admired the “splendor” of ...
The 1930s were the decade of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and other problems, but also the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency and Hollywood’s Golden Age.
This is a working class business men’s look, using entirely new (used) clothing. You may notice nothing matches. This was normal for the 1930s, since the Depression created a need for economy in men’s dress. Brown single breasted suit coatwith lighter brown 6 button vest, and a greeni...
In fact, the films were becoming so family-unfriendly, that people stopped attending pictures and the studios started to worry about not surviving the Depression. So, in an effort spurred on far more by economics than morality, Hollywood adopted this very draconian code. Now, in the 'cleaned ...
As the Great Depression slowly crushed some of the smaller automobile manufacturers, the Big Three (Ford, GM and Chrysler) were duking it out in the advertising pages, much to the amusement ofE.B. White,who filed this in his “Notes and Comment” section: ...