During World War II, women working in industrial work in war service wore their husbands’ trousers, and in the post-war era trousers were still common casual wear for gardening, socialising, and other leisure pursuits.
High school girls on their way to school, office workers in first-aid classes, city women shopping, factory girls, all of them are now wearing slacks. That being said, all the pants seen here in these images all conform to the WPB regulations on women’s wear apparel (no cuffs, no belt, low or no heels etc).
While slacks have been highly fashionable since Hollywood stars like Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard and Katherine Hepburn donned them in the early 1930s, never before has there been such a plethora of non skirt wearing women!
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s
Vintage Photos of College Girls in Slacks in the 1940s