20th Century
Published on March 12, 2012

Early 1950s fashions and fabrics in Japan, Part 2 of 5

written by The Dreamstress

I gave you just a tiny taste of some of the darlingness in the early 1950s Japanese pattern book.  Here are a few more.

I love the colours of these dresses - muted blue, lavender-plum, and brown orange

Lets look at the suggested fabrics:

This pattern is so funny - it's like little cats or aliens, or something naughty!

Fish!

I love the middle dress, but that green frock looks hard to pull off!

There are clearly different sections in the book, with different styling.  I think the above fashions were ladies fashions, and these are junior frocks:

So cute and fresh! I can't decide if I love the black or the white and green best

Aren’t they so lovely and young and fresh?

The white frock on the left! *swoon!*

There are children’s fashions too:

D'awww

OK. The little boys overalls crack me up!

I find it very interesting that the kids look Japanese (or at least fashion drawing Japanese), while the adults are either Caucasion or very generic any-ethnicity.

I'm in love with the black dress

And then there are these ladies. Who simply don’t have half their faces

I love that these are, for the most part, really simple, casual, easy-wear fashions

The simple dresses are livened by lovely details, and the beautiful fabrics.

Simple dresses with clever little quirks

The little faux over-jacket on the left? And the pockets on the right? LOVE

I hope you enjoyed them!  More in a few days!

6 Comments

  1. Zach says

    I love the top brown one too, but I thought of funny looking forks when I saw the fabric pattern–it is odd isn’t it? That one dress…gracious…that would take one hot mama to pull it off! Matronly doesn’t even begin to describe it!

    I love all of these 50s fashions, by the way. It’s one of my favorite eras.

  2. Janie says

    I’m totally in love with the very top middle dress. Love.

  4. StephC says

    I just noticed how Anglo those women look, then realized what was going on in Japan in the 50’s… Post-war occupation. I always knew it wasn’t just a military occupation but a cultural one, so this is even more interesting…

    I’m always a sucker for simple dresses with tucks- wide, thin, vertical, horizontal, everything in between…

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