Fashion Wars
Snap-front army green top over velvet skirt from Marc Jacobs Fall 2009
Wartime has always had an impact on fashion. World War I focused on trench coats and shorter skirts while World War II popularized sportswear, strong shoulders and nipped waists.
Later, Vietnam inspired protest-driven army green and fatigues for angry men and women who forcibly altered the course of history by for the first time protesting against a war that seemed completely illogical.
When the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began in 2003, the fashion world focused on double-breasted military style jackets with epaulets and an unusual amount of wildlife flooded the accessories market in the form of symbolic wildlife and feathers – protective amulets against the ugliness of greed.
Writers trying to explain it thought it was a return to nature, a voyage into the woods where we could hide and play safe with antlered deer, owls and finches. A sacred place where war simply couldn’t touch us.
Six years later, the war has jaded us, having had little impact on fashion for some time now (though I do question that with the Marc Jacobs).
Kathleen Campbell, a fashion historian affiliated with the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota, says when history judges this period, an influence – possibly the use of scarves and layers like the ones used in those regions to protect against weather extremes – might emerge. “I think we’re too close to analyze the effects now. It’s much easier to see in retrospect,” says Campbell.
You be the judge. See any current fashion trends you think are influenced from wartime?
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8 Comments
August 18th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Models always wear such unique make-up. The styles are quite interesting, too.
August 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Would love to win the unique wool bag.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
A new, unique twist on incorporating army wear into fashion – but I’m not so sure that Army green and rose colored velvet compliment each other.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
“unique is to fashion what an apple on a bare tree in winter is to nature.”-jojo jano Love all the cool giveaways and unique ideas.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
To Lori W: If you take a good look at nature, you’ll see that those colors have been around since the begining of time. Red and green are opposites on the color wheel. just an FYI.
August 18th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
the fit on the skirt is unique
August 19th, 2009 at 3:50 am
Unique is one way of looking at that outfit. Uniquely ugly and unappetizing applies to not just the outfit but to the model who has been turned into some kind of weird mannequin.
August 19th, 2009 at 7:47 am
What a unique look at green fashion. The style is not for me, but it was interesting to see!
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