La Manufacture

Motivated of course to exchange collector informations with you, day after day I will trye to present french work clothing specifities. During those last 20 years of collecting US items, I had also time and occasions to find great french very interesting pieces…Since the end of the 30's, French fashion was inspired by american design and used to be late, compared the new continent style. WWII and GI's style, was a revolution in the clothing comportment of people. The sportswear start to be a real lifestyle for everyday.
But at the begining of the 20th century, French, dutch, german, british people… immigrants came with their "savoir faire" and manufacture technicities. French taylors, german leather manufacturers was at the origin of this US Authentic style. So Clothing fabrics and design was really similar, at he same time in the two continents…Look at this selection of 1934 French catalog pages…It's a real "cahier de tendances" for japanese stylists…