I'm a legend: Dior cardigan jacket

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This silhouette has become synonymous with femininity and is included in all books on the history of fashion, despite the fact that many contemporaries called it a disgusting attempt to return women to the shackles of a corset!

The first 1947 collection from the Dior fashion house called The Crowned Line shook the firmament of the fashion world and forever immortalized the new look style.
"Fashion wanted to return to its original purpose, and its purpose is to decorate women, help them become beautiful," Dior wrote in his autobiography, and hardly anyone today wants to dispute that he created the silhouette of a flower woman with the thinnest waist and magnificent skirt embodies the idea of beauty in a woman ...

However, today, maybe, he doesn’t want to, but in the past he still wanted to, and none other than the legendary Coco Chanel, who called Dior’s work “the main horror of the late 1940s”! And the feminist community, what we consider to be one of the symbols of femininity these days, called another attempt to re-shackle women in corsets.

One way or another, a special place in the Dior constellation was occupied by one of the costumes of the first collection - Le Bar Dior, which is a set of a fitted jacket in white or pastel-beige shade with a peplum and black bottom: a fluffy maxi-skirt, or pencil skirt, or tight trousers.Such a set was made of silk, satin or fine wool, and it was supplemented with mandatory gloves, a hat and high heel shoes.

"Europe is tired of the falling bombs, she wants to light the fireworks," Christian Dior answered the ill-wishers and continued to recreate the silhouette of the Woman again and again. Moreover, contrary to the speculations of feminists, Dior did not seek to shackle the beautiful half of humanity in the shackles of corsets, he sought to create some alternative to tradition and progressiveness - a woman free from conventions and prejudices, but not yet ready to put on pants and smoke cigarettes, having joined the movement feminists. The very name of the jacket and the costume as a whole (Dior created it to visit the "happy hours" in bars) testified that this is a step forward, but not backward!

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Since 1947, the jacket "bar" has never left the collections of the fashion house, each time changing under the influence of the designer at the head. For example, in the couture collection of the fall-winter 2017 season, the jacket was decorated with golden branches with flowers.

Photo: Dior

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