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Collegiate Fashion Inspiration

Hi there!  I’m Lauren from Wearing Biography.  I’m so excited that Casey asked me to be a lodger blogger!

One of my constant fashion inspirations has got to be Collegiate create, especially from the 1930s!  Not only is collegiate look very cute and sporty, but it’s also a inordinate way to start implementing a vintage look into your closet.  A lot of the core pieces are still considered basics today!

(Chicago Letters Order Catalog- Fall/Winter 1939-1940)

When a sweetheart became a “co-ed” a lot of times she traveled from placid to college, so of course she had to have a wardrobe arrange! I love these wardrobe building guidelines because they can very likely be applied to any wardrobe and are a great base to build up your basics.

The book Calculating Women: the Art, Technique, and Cost of Being Alluring, published 1938,  says the fortitude of college wardrobe  is  “…a tweed trial with matching topcoat, luxuriously furred.  Then an dividend skirt and the jacket we spoke of, with a profusion of sweaters will take mind a look after of your campus needs.  For dates, you’d best bib be provided with a good black crepe gown, a black satin, a black velvet skirt with a brace of cocktail blouses, and a black velvet dirndl.  You can recompense for your best coat do for fall, winter, and bounce, if you get a black cloth one with a detachable promontory of, say, Persian.” (page 195)

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