Cold War Era Fashion
American fashion in the cold war being fashionable was now something to which many citizens could aspire even while the state still did not support.
Cold war era fashion. With the benefit of hindsight it becomes clear that like world war ii the cold war was fought by men and women in uniform. In 1973 soviet manufacturers even began producing jeans. Besides the creation of local fashion designers like melanie kaarma and tailors there are a number of international classics which were borrowed from musee du costume et de la dentelle de la ville de bruxelles in brussles belgium and from a nordic exsupermodel carita jaervinen. These same fashionable ideas would remain a constant through.
The year was 1966. Due to communism in other countries such as china people were neither able to wear what they wanted nor embrace themselves in the latest fashion trend of that season or even year. Fashion during the cold war gave people the opportunity to express themselves through what they wore. Mini skirts were all the rage and the rolling stones blasted from the radio.
Fashion and the cold war exhibition looks dashing although conceptually there is not much cold war left in it. The grey flannel suit of corporate america the blue cotton suit of. The fascinating story of two feuding magazines and the ideological clash that catalyzed germanys youth uprising.