1. 1940’S FASHION Ana Gonzalez

2. CLAIRE MCCARDELL Born: Frederick, Maryland, May 24,1905. Education: Attended hood college, Maryland, 1923-1925 and Parsons schools of design, New York and Paris 1926-29. Family: Married Irving D. Harris, 1943. Career: Fashion model, knitwear designer.

3. CLAIRE DESIGN

5.  Her first magazine was, Time magazine in, 1955.  Claire McCardell was well known for her fashion designer who revolutionized women’s fashion in America. She was the cover subject of an article on the emergence of American fashion in May 2, 1955 issue of the Time Magazine. She was one of the woman the change fashion.She was amaze when her magazine came out.

6. She first worked as a sketch artist for Townley Frocks, and than she left to work for Hattie Carnegie, and then returned to Townley for a few years as their head designer and eventually became a partner in the company. 9,831 of her sketches created during this time are now archived in the Fashion Design History Collection at the new school in New York.

7. Her clothes were functional and simple with clean lines. They were considered subtly sexy with functional decorations. She utilized details from men’s work clothing, such as large pockets, denim fabric, blue-jean topstitching, metal rivets and trouser pleats.

8.  McCardell was inspired by Vienne and Chanel when studying in Paris in 1926. She designed clothes for her own lifestyle, much as Chanel did before her. As she was quoted in the article, “I’ve always designed things I needed myself. It just turns out that other people need them too.” Many of her pieces were created out of necessity:. Most importantly, when hampered with too much luggage on a European trip, she created separates by designing dresses in parts with interchangeable tops and skirts. In addition, the tops could also be worn with pants. Her wardrobe was based on jersey halter neck tops and jersey skirts.

11.  A black cotton hooded coat with three patent-leather buckles down the front, which McCardell designed about 1949, is astonishingly up to date. Defining the waist of an unconstructed dress with belt or spaghetti strings tied around the waist or under the breasts became one of McCardell's signatures, allowing women, she proclaimed, greater freedom. Another style, the monastic or monk's dress, fell unfettered from the shoulders, suited every body shape and was a look McCardell would return to frequently.  It was blue, had a surplice neckline and came with a matching oven mitt.

12. THE PAGES  http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/mcc ardell.html http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/educ/exhibits/womenshall/html/mcc ardell.html  http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/17/style/celebrating-claire- mccardell.html http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/17/style/celebrating-claire- mccardell.html  www.pinterest.com/HistoiredeMode/claire-mccardell/  http://www.fashionillustrationtribe.com/member-area/claire- mccardell-museum-visit/

13. “ARE YOU CONSTANTLY TORMENTED WITH THE THOUGH” She made this book not only because she was a designer but because her self, as normal woman she use to ask her self the same question what should wear.

15.  Her designs are still alive even now in 2014 some woman still wear. It might be a little different but we still see it. We also know that she started like a photographer when she was a young woman.  Claire McCardell resembles an easy, confident, athletic American woman, free and optimistic an easy.

17. THE ANCIENT GREEK

18. GREEK  The Doric chiton was on the most common garment worn by both men and women in Greece during the sixth and early fifth centuries, the chiton was a kind of tunic formed by folding wrapping a single rectangular piece of fabric around the body.  Most Greeks clothing was created simply and some of them were design elegantly.

19. Once it was pinned at the shoulders, the chiton could be belted to increase the drapery effect. Both men and women draped the Doric chiton artistically, but men often wore it pinned at the only one shoulder leaving the other shoulder bare.

21.  Another feminine style involved wrapping one long belt around the body and crossing it between the breast or across the back that’s how most people use to wearer so that way it would give like a figure to there body.  Because much of the information about Greek about Greek fashion marble statues, many people have long assumed that ancient Greeks dressed mainly in white

22.  2014 we still use the Ancient Greek fashion no matter if its on a dress, or on a shirt but still use it and we still see it. The old fashion its coming back, We are bring it back to our time or live

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25. Theirs 9 designers that keep Greek fashion with a little of unusual design and high production values to create unique contemporary clothe that throw out the years it keeps coming back to live, we keep using it with out notice it.

27.  Ancient Greek clothing was typically homemade and the same piece of homespun fabric that was used as a type of garment, or blanket. From Greek vase paintings and sculptures, we can tell that the fabrics were intensely colored and usually decorated with intricate designs, Because much of our knowledge of Greek fashions comes from the marble sculptures they left behind, many people once thought that most Greeks wore only white clothes.

28.  Greeks, in fact, loved color and many dyed their clothes, and also the way that people knew which society they were in, it was because of the colors they wore. Wealthy aristocrats wore purple clothes dyed from a species of shellfish or pure white linen robes. Yellow clothes were worn mostly by women. Black clothes were worn by those mourning the death of a loved one. Peasants dyed their clothing a variety of greens, browns, and grays. Soldiers wore dark red garments to minimize the appearance of blood on the battlefield.