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wearing trousers. The outbreak of war changed the roles of women in

society leading to the need for a different kind of fashion, more structured

military look entered in the fashion sector because of jobs often requiring

a uniform or trousers. As women dressed for new roles, gender-dictated

dress codes relaxed. Skirts became shorter, as they often do during

wartime, and colors became sober and muted. Skirts were simple shapes

with a mid-calf tea-length. Details such as white side buttons, large

pockets, and wide gathered waistbands matched those of dresses. The

skirt sat high on the waist in which a blouse or “shirtwaist” was tucked

into and billowed out slightly. These skirts looked almost like a longer,

more flowing version of the pencil skirts of today. They were often worn

with a tunic, jacket, or even a fur-lined coat. The popular colors were for

women: peach, grey, blue, rose, yellow, sand and black. For men: navy,

grey, green, and brown.

Next The Silent Generation or the Traditionalists was the

demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding

the baby boomers. This relatively small generation found itself

sandwiched between the war hero G.I.s and the large and influential

Baby Boomer generation, Silent Generation is generally defined as

people born from 1928 to 1945, who were children during World War II

and too young to fight. The “silent generation” so called because they

were raised during a period of war and economic depression. The

generation was comparatively small because the Great Depression of the