Giant Pants of the '30s

Joan Crawford on the set of Grand Hotel (Goulding, 1932)

Moss Bros / Bondor 1937

Vintage fashion inspiration: riding breeches/jodhpurs

Ray & Judy Dancing

Curly Top (1935) Shirley Temple

My family’s Oldsmobile and Cadillac dealership in the 1930s. 

Note the combinations. Even pinstripes can be worn with odd trousers.

Girl in 1938

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Click image for 734 x 900 size. “Joan Crawford, MGM film star, emerges from her dressing room looking chic in shades and slacks. Major film stars were required to look groomed and to live up to the Hollywood dream both on and off the screen. Fashionably full-painted lips became known as ‘Joan Crawford mouth’. “ Scanned from “Decades of Fashion” by Harriet Worsley.