CLUTCH

This practical leather bag could be held in the hand or, to give the owner more authority, under the arm. Clothes and accessories took on obvious martial tones in the second half of the 1930s as the anticipation of war built. In 1939 British Vogue stated, ‘Thousands of girls … will go out looking for jobs this autumn. Thousands will get jobs. (Clothes will have something to do with this.) Thousands won’t get jobs. (Clothes will have something to do with this, too.)