"'Le Bar' by Christian Dior, 1947. Photograph by Willy Maywald. (c) Assoc. Willy Maywald/ADAGP." Although the "New Look" stirred up considerable controversy among the fashion conscious in Europe and Japan, to what extent did it affect Japanese women who were still struggling to recover from the ruins of war? A good place to look is Japanese women's magazines, 1945-48.

From: Valerie Steele. Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.