 | | 11/07/2016 22:05
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Emulating Katharine Hepburn’s Practical, Depression-Era Glamour
“It’s no longer smart to be chic … The new mode is casual, bold, chunky, and realistic.”
~ Vogue, 1936
The 1930s was a turbulent decade, to say the least. The market crash in 1929 which brought about The Great Depression left many people destitute. Those who had already been on the margins were left to scrap and scrape and hope they didn’t starve.
All of my grandparents survived The Depression, though I do wonder how sometimes. My maternal grandmother, who is 93 now, tells the story of how their family lived on a bank-owned plot of land in Oklahoma when she was a girl. Her parents couldn’t keep up on their...
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