1940's Fashion Show during the London Blitz | AI Enhanced
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2020
- AI enhanced time capsule of extraordinary quality of a fashion show filmed during the London Blitz in 1941.
Featuring utility dresses by Edward Molyneux, Norman Hartnell, Victor Stiebel, Charles Creed, Digby-Morton, Worth, and Peter Russell. Under the cloud of war, this little Technicolor gem was a rarity.
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Original Technicolor filmd : Queen Cotton 1941 is part of the British Council film archive of short documentaries made by the British Council during the 1940s. The films were designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played. View, download and play with the archive at film.britishcouncil.org/resou....
Director - Cecil Musk
Cinematographer - Jimmy Rogers
Technicolor Adviser - Jack Cardiff ( The Red Shoes, A Matter of Life and Death)
Published under a Creative Commons License by the British Council film archive
film.britishcouncil.org/resou... 
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My dear late wife was born in this period and they had a stoic strength and courage rarely seen these days.
I grew up in the 90s the firdt kid born in 29 year so all the people I was around in early childhood were 29 to 50+ year older than me. My great grandmother and some of her sisters were still living then but 80 and 90 year old. Now most all of them gone. Even my mom. I miss them.
and don’t forget class and morals
@@pandorafalemias9819 Quite so.
"Gone With The Wind" came out in 1939 and you can see the influence of it in the fashions. Rationing of fabric happened in 1941 in England. So this was the last time you saw such big long flowing dresses until mid 50's I believe.
I was just thinking how much a few of those looks were VERY Scarlet O'Hara!
There is nothing more chilling than the sound of the shrieking sirens, I can't imagine what utter hell they went through back then. Other than that it was a lovely clip, beautiful women.
The bombings actually brought the best out of people. Everone was helping each other, and they found humor in the midst of all of it. Some put signs "more open than usual" on their shops that had been bombed down. They also got used to the bombings and the sirens quickly, nobody was panicking when they went off after a while. Lot of people didn't even take cover anymore, they just continued doing their businesses as usual.
Of course it was very hard too, nobody has easy time losing their loved ones or homes. But humans are amazing creatures that find ways to survive and even enjoy life in the middle of such things.
Keep in mind that they continually ran the air raid sirens to keep people in a constant state of fear...just like they’re doing now, in just a different variation with people (at least with the TV -watchers, that is). They’ve always got some sort of little system to keep you wound up, new things to fear, and “closely monitor, or you’ll die”...If you’re the sort to keep falling for that and tuning in for it. A lot of people don’t. The only way they hear about it it’s from the people who do. So, they avoid the people who insist on tuning in to be programmed (even as their programmers thank them for tuning in to be programmed). Such people tend to have difficulty refraining from vomiting their mental filth and fear all over everyone else, so the rest of the world avoids TV-watchers.
I worked at a film studio once where they were setting off the air raid siren for something in a different area of the lot. It's a sound that just goes straight through you. I think I was primed to have a visceral reaction by my dad talking about his experience in WW2 as a child in London. You are right it's chilling to hear.
@@misskim2058 More conspiracy theory nonsense. Stop poisoning your brain with rubbish.
nothing compared to hell they caused to indigenous people of the colonies they occupied for 100's of years!
There were some lovely dresses and coats that wouldn’t look out of place today. It did go a bit ‘gone with the wind’ and the end. It was a joy though.
Gone With the Wind had a pretty big influence on fashions of the early 40s. Especially eveningwear.
I was thinking the same thing! Those models definitely had the Scarlett O’Hara look going.
GW the Wind was a recent film & big hit at the time
I though the same, especially that last dress! So Scarlett O’Hara 😅
Women back then looked so classy, elegant, and so beautiful!
And still does till this day!
I completely agree , honestly if women dressed like this in this period I be in my element, pure class I dread to think about what's on tv nowadays 😅
@@eire6118 women don't dress for u
Yes. None of them was fat ("body positive").
im noticing a lot of "classy" trends lately. like all the opera gloves at modern red carpets!
The simplicity and yet ABSOLUTE ELEGANCE of these times are inevitable.
Uh, enviable?
I wish wearing hats hadn’t gone of style.
I love hats to
JFK bruh
Hats AND gloves. C'mon ladies, let's bring it back.
@@normalperson659 I agree 👍
I wear hats all the time and make hats! The beautiful Princess Diana brought them back,--I WEAR THEM, JUST WEAR THEM- make your own like I do!!! Kimberly
2:30 -gave me Scarlett O'Hara vibes
Quite frankly my dear I don’t give a damn..... sorry couldn’t resist that. Yes defo O’Hara vibes. I loved the one at 1:11!
I was thinking the same thing! That maybe the dress was a throw back style due to the fame of the movie Gone with the Wind.
@@dawnlittle2501 quite possible as Gone with the wind was made in 1939.
Yesss
when you'd actually want to wear what was on the catwalk
The long dresses that started appearing towards the middle of the video are SO LOVELY 😍💕
I am from the South and the town i live in sits on the Gulf of Mexico. So we often battle hurricanes (during hurricane season) but we have tornadoes pretty often as well ....during hurricane season and beyond. When there is a tornado in our area we use the same or very similar sirens as a warning to everyone. It is a very scary sound. But i would rather hear that warning sound for a tornado than an air raid any day!
Thank you for sharing your video. Absolutely beautiful. The women of that time were so elegant. Thank you again. Looking forward to your next video.
0:48 the woman in the right...the class, beauty and grace shining from her eyes is mesmerizing
Yesss... I was looking in the comments to see if anyone else noticed her. Fascinating!
She's the actual beauty in this video :)
Amazing the influence "Gone with the Wind" had on fashion and their choices for their mannequins (models) . But I suppose this was just a few years later.
There was a fair bit of Gone With The Wind influence in those ball gowns, wasn't it!
The 40s had a strong Victorian and Edwardian influence.
Most of the clothes are still relevant today, some mix n match and accessories 😘
Yep you're right
Well to each their own!
'90s kid here and I love '40s clothing style. Plenty of my dresses and other clothes are aligned or inspired by this decade. People around me acknowledge that vintage fashion is my "thing".
I like how they still had life going on while there’s a war going on
Yes, they kept calm & carried on...
There is a war going on somewhere at all times
this style of life was only ongoing for the wealthy elite
Today, Fauci, Biden and company would have then locked down!
Beautiful restoration! It feels like it was filmed last week with reenactors or something.
I liked one thing, but I really liked it a lot - the length of the day dresses - just immediately below the knee.
I think it made the proportion of the dresses, top waist bottom, look very good.
I like 40s fashions much more than those of 50s. They are not as "stuffy"
The 30's and 40's atmosphere was one of using fewer materials, but more creatively. The 50's was just the beginning of conspicuous consumption.
In the 30s and 40s, many people were on limited budgets, so they couldn't afford fancy outfits and had to make do with what they had. In the 50s, though, people had more money to spend and didn't have to worry about making outfits practical and long-lasting, so their clothes, for the most part, became fancier!
Too me, the 1940's and '30s we're the zenith of fashions!
How lovely and then ends in air sirens is chilling
I love their mannerisms. My favorite retro fashion show is from The Women 1939 💜 ugghhhh I wish women still dressed like this
I absolutely love the movie The Women, isn't it fabulous? And start a vintage fashion group in your area! I'm in one here in Dallas and it's wonderful to connect with other women of all ages and backgrounds who love the beautiful fashions of the past (most of our favorites are 1920s-40s, some 50s and 60s). Some of us wear vintage every day (actual vintage clothing from those eras or reproductions or a mix of both), and others wear them only on special occasions/events/etc. For instance we all went to see Casablanca and dressed in WW2 fashion, we attend WW2 airshows, attend Honor Flight returns, 1920s jazz socials, retro Christmas parties, etc....some of the gals can really do their hair right out of the era (I'm iffy on that, sometimes mine looks good and other times, eek, not so well LOL). It's great being around other women who appreciate the classics of bygone eras. And a few of them have boyfriends and husbands involved too 🙂
Can we just appreciate how elegant and beautiful the voice over at the start was. True class.
That was and is wonderful to watch.
Ladies always have dressed for themselves.
Thank you from Scotland.
That woman in the audience at 0:49 and 1:27 is a stunning beauty
People used to actually watch the fashion show instead of filimg it with their phones 😂
It's all fashion anyone could wear, today's fashion shows are only for models.
Definitely not for the models. For the brands pockets when they sell perfume and a few bags off the show?
@@bustedkeaton They mean that the kinds of clothing models wear at fashion shows nowadays aren’t really things people can wear normally. They’re all really abstract or stylised
Because it's art
This was a reminder for me to be graceful today ;)
The last part gave me the goosebumps 😔
Yep
Why?
@@honkytonk4465 it’s the sound of an air raid siren
@@honkytonk4465 and soldiers marching
@@colonyofrats4193 but war is over
These ladies look devine 💖
your channel is amazing. thank you for posting such beautiful vintage video. everytime l need conforting l come here xxx
I love the clothing of this era so beautiful, I try to dress like this but hard to find certain items. The ends was sad 😔
Reminds me of those people who dress up in 30's and 40's era clothing all the time. They look so elegant.
This is lovely; it looks like a powdery dream!
The elegance. These women are timelessly beautiful.
They look better than those Instagram models 😘😘😘
No one asked for your opinion on women😘
Luxury Queen I agree 👍
@@SaraH-jn5db listen some women are beautiful on instagram but most of the models are photoshopped to a large degree wearing may I say trashy clothes but there are some amazing fun people there too
@@SaraH-jn5db No one asked for your ridiculous comment either. OP is 100% correct and even Stevie Wonder could see it.
Let's not pit women against each other and support them all :)
Stunning footage and color-enhanced restoration. Thank you! So refreshing to see models smiling occasionally and while they're slender, they're not emaciated and miserable looking, as so many of today's models are. I particularly loved the suit. The air raid siren and what appeared to be the blackout at the end was chilling, especially if it was truly part of the actual footage.
Wow, I found a vintage top that has the exact same design as the first girls dress
Every single dress is the most stunning dress!
I so wish the fashions & hairstyles would come back. They were so feminine & beautiful.
The backless dress at 1:11 and the one right after it were the stand outs to me.
1:09 This dress look like something you could find in a shop today.
I wish I could afford to have things custom made, I'd dress like a 1940's woman everyday.
I’m surprised at how revealing some of these looks are, I see cropped cutouts and deep plunging backs. Interesting!
If I recall correctly, low back gowns started during 1930s, worn by actresses in noir films. Meant for dramatic exits, as they say.
Notice how everyone was well dressed to begin with? That element of style is sorely lacking today.
Without a doubt, the hippies killed it.
When you look at these dresses, and then compare it with the sagging jeans of today, you realize just how far we’ve fallen in terms of elegance.
Stunning. Thank you for sharing this. Blessings to all 🙏🕊
Ah yes when fashion shows were about clothes, yes that must've been nice. We've certainly gone downhill since then.
Oh my goodness, yes indeed! Ugly mass-produced synthetic clothes from China have replaced all that elegance. In the 1960s, all Australian girls made their own clothes, everything was tailor-made!
They're still about clothes now!
@@moviemad56 I feel like you are mixing different economical classes. You are comparing clothes on this videos, which is shows for rich people with what we currently have for low class. Shein and other things like that is something that working class can afford, and, sure, mass-produced clothes is synthetic, because they need to make their products as cheap as it possible. If we need to compare those days and current times, we need to compare at this dresses with expensive dresses stars are wearing. And hardly could low-class people afford anything back at the days: they did not have a lot of low-quality clothes, and could not buy things we see on this videos.
Hand-made was not always the best choice as well, becuase you need a lot of things to make a nice dress. My entire family have degrees that connected to sewing, it is A LOT to buy, to actually sew anything you want. Even know a sewing machine is not something you can buy easily, if you are not at least middle class.
If we compare those times and current times, we have much more opportunites to look the way we want (including the way beautiful women are dressed on this video), because we can buy the same way looking things on Shein for almost nothing
@@chloekrol7152
We are coming from two very different places and times. My comment referred to Australia in the 1960s, and is true for that place and time. My family was far from wealthy but like most families then, we had a sewing machine, and learned how to cut out patterns and piece garments together. We also did a lot of hand-sewing.
I love this! Everything is sooo cute and cheerful! I wish I had a time machine.
my mother lived through the Blitz in London (she was also in the bombing of Manchester) and these ladies MUST have been quite privileged as war exigencies did not make for much glamour! and, most young ladies, like my mother, were DRAFTED!
I did not know women were obligated to serve (though I know that many did, and of course everyone worked in some fashion, at home, or otherwise, same as here in the States)
But when did rationing of cloth start? I know Utility suits were a thing, and these long dresses seem over the top, as well as the furs worn by the posh patrons. I’d assume fur farmers would have started raising animals for consumption, instead.
Do you know? Thanks.
True, this video shows the very privilaged lifestyle of the old colonial elite,
I would wear everything from that collection!
1:11 THIS dress is stunning!!! All of them are but this particular one caught my eye!!!
I love how the models are naturally beautiful with no surgeries and very classy and sophisticated. 💖
They also had to worry about a shitton more diseases that we still hadn't eradicated! Hard to go into surgery for even basic care, let alone cosmetic work.
Nose surgery was already thing as well as hairline and much more. Body modification is a really ancient practice
@@TheRavenRose The Studios forced Rita Hayworth to do both (nose job, electrolysis to raise her hairline) so she would look less "ethnic" i.e., Spanish.
Thats awesome! I love watching these videos , thanks for posting these
Cinematographers then had a keen eye for lighting.
Gone with the Wind was a very popular movie apparently.
Love these styles
Um i’d wear them now. 2021. All of em. Now.
Oh my, all the ladies in the video looked and acted PERFECT ♥️
Every piece was beautiful. I’d wear most of those outfits if I could.
Stunning fit and I am dying at some of these.. stunning
This is the best fashion video from the 1940's I've seen, ever! Thank you very much, Glamodaze ❤.
The dress/two-piece at 1:10 looks like something they'd have put on a runway just a few years ago, with that crossover front and low back exposed.
These women are much, much healthier, and cheerful than skinny models nowadays. Kind of our loss.
Thank you for share!
I already subscribed.
Bring some of these back! I love most of these gowns. That last one was my favorite.
I loved the pockets suspense from the belt on the last dress.
These clothes are miles & miles ahead of anything we see today , they had style & elegance, loved each & every one ..
All of the dresses are so beautiful!!
Back when fashion shows actually showed things one could wear...
It is nice to see something besides trash bags
Beautiful video and styles.
Omg all of those dresses are fashionable and elegant!!
Noting the influence of "Gone With the Wind" on some of the designs.
Beautiful elegant dresses. Beautiful fine models!!
Wow. The juxtaposition of a high tone fashion show against a blackout air raid siren is startling. Then & now, as always, life goes on.
I really love the persons voice and how it sounds.
My favorite era of fashion...The siren going off reminds me of the classic movie The Time Machine.
Absolutely stunning.
Not crazy about a lot of the color combinations or patterns, but there are some nice outfits here. The one at :50 looks like an outfit from the early 1960s, so that designer was ahead of the curve.
Today's Fashion show is at Walmart. Where you can see the latest in sweat pants, pajama bottoms, and hoodies.
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at your comment
Thank you for this video. I love the styles thank you. 👗
OMG....I would wear some of these today...I do WISH I knew somewhere that makes some of this type of clothing??? LOVED the video...
What I wouldn’t give to be able to wear those gorgeous dresses!!!
Elegance truly. And I love how everyone just left lol
Amazing film, thank you. The fashions are wonderful and I would wear some of them today (timeless styles), the models actually look healthy AND were smiling.
I must say that this collection definitely took inspiration from the blockbuster movie of the time, "Gone With the Wind". From the fabric patterns to the silhouette and even the hats of the models! It's very Scarlett O'Hara! Well, it makes sense since Vivian Leigh is probably the most popular British actress of the time to appear in such a big Hollywood movie.
The dark red dress was so beautiful oh my
I'm here to look at the glamorous clients in furs
0:49 OMG the lady in the black hat is so beautiful.
Bravo Bravisimo!
0:38 this one for some reason reminds me so much of Cinderella’s dress (the pink one she tries to go to the ball with but the evil step-sisters destroy it)
Is it me, or are these vids almost 3D looking. Very nice. Thank you.
Beautiful!
Wow. Just wow!
I LOVE this!
Amazing video quality, the model at 02:22 looks like a sister of Paulette Goddard and Vivien Leigh, c: those air raid sirens chill me to the bone, and that's just because of the stories passed down from my parents, both from Birmingham England, the Industrial areas were bombed for the duration of ww2, especially the run up to the battle of Britain, God bless them, never forgotten
1:43 I'm in love with this dress ❤️❤️
Ufff elegance ❤😍
Watching this chic and elegant fashio show I feel I was born in a wrong era!!!Simply wonderful outfits!
0:52: it's so classy, I love that dress. 👗
Super cute!! Bring those back!
Priceless
that red backless dress is so beautiful.😍👗💕