Me a few weeks ago at the Slovenian seaside (the Slovenian coastline on the Adriatic only stretches 45km, so what you see in the distance is in fact Italy – Trieste I think). As you can see I’m making good use of my new tilt hat that I bought in London, a few weeks before that! It’s a 40s style, but I think it’s from the late 70s or early 80s – you know when they had that huge 40s fashion revival? Oh, the high-waisted jeans I bought in London too actually – Tara Starlet that I bought from Revival Retro.

Photograph by Loomis Dean in Paris, 1957.

From Wikipedia: “Paul Poiret (20 April 1879  – 30 April 1944) was a French fashion designer. His contributions to twentieth-century fashion have been likened to Picasso’s contributions to twentieth-century art. Though perhaps best known for freeing women from corsets and for his startling inventions including hobble skirts, “harem” pantaloons, and “lampshade” tunics, Poiret’s major contribution to fashion was his development of an approach to dressmaking centered on draping, a radical departure from the tailoring and pattern-making of the past. The structural simplicity of his clothing represented a “pivotal moment in the emergence of modernism” generally, and “effectively established the paradigm of modern fashion, irrevocably changing the direction of costume history.”

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