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the sisters Fontana, in fact, was due to their style characterized by a Romantic taste dating back to the end of the XVIII century and the beginning of the XIX century.
Picture 12 A traditional silhouette characterized Italian fashion of the 50s, although Italian couturiers specialized in what they were gifted and what they had long studied and practiced: laces, crochets, fabric production. The society felt the need to forget the disasters of the war and the collective imagination was reassured by maternal figures such as Gina Lollobrigida, Sofia Loren, the so-called well-endowed women or Maggiorate. But these actresses used to wear haute couture dresses in private and during the film they used to dress up as the average Italian woman, humble, in accordance with the role they played. Italian women couldnt afford haute couture so they started a sort of auto production and imitation of these dresses, a determinant factor for the spread of cheap clothing offered by big stores like Upim (founded in 1919), and Standa (1931), Max Mara and the textile financial Group were the first introducing tailored clothes in stardardized sizes.