This Evening Slide Show
Fashion of the 1930s were influenced by both the great depression and the glamour of Old Hollywood.
The interesting contrast between the two is what makes 1930s fashion so interesting.
On the one hand, you have most of the population suffering from the depression and relying on simple fashion.
On the other hand, you have the lavish 1930s glamour, played up to the max by Old Hollywood.
In the 1920s, after the end of WWI, the world was becoming modern and the roaring twenties lent an air of excitement and optimism to fashion.
Fashion was made "modern" with short, tubular flapper dresses popularized by Coco Chanel, and short hair for women.
With the stock market crash in the late 1920s, the united states was launched into the great depression in the 1930s.
Gone was the flapper era with the short flapper dresses of 1920s fashion.
In came more conservative women's fashion.
Skirts became longer again, and women grew their hair longer as well.