{"id":342113,"date":"2020-05-21T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T16:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=342113"},"modified":"2021-12-15T06:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T11:08:28","slug":"capri-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/capri-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short History of Capri Pants, on the 100th Birthday of Their Inventor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/slim-aarons-dolores-guinness\/id-a_1330913\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/3165414_master.jpg\" alt=\"Dolores Guinness, 1965, by Slim Aarons\" class=\"wp-image-342253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/3165414_master.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/3165414_master-343x350.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/3165414_master-931x950.jpg 931w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/3165414_master-118x120.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/3165414_master-768x784.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/3165414_master-914x933.jpg 914w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/color-photography\/slim-aarons-dolores-guinness\/id-a_1330913\/\"><em>Dolores Guinness<\/em>, 1965, by Slim Aarons<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s take a moment to celebrate fashion designer Sonja de Lennart, who turns 100 years old on May 21. Happy birthday, Sonja! Born in 1920 in Breslau, Prussia, de Lennart achieved fame for her design of the capri pant, the cropped, close-fitting trouser that has become a fashion staple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/more-prints-works-on-paper\/unknown-original-vintage-travel-poster-advertising-grand-hotel-quisisana-capri-italy\/id-a_1691673\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT1483_master-663x950.jpg\" alt=\"Poster ad for Capri's Grand Hotel Quisisana, 1938\" class=\"wp-image-342257\" width=\"402\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT1483_master-663x950.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT1483_master-244x350.jpg 244w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT1483_master-84x120.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT1483_master-768x1101.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT1483_master-651x933.jpg 651w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/PT1483_master.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/prints-works-on-paper\/more-prints-works-on-paper\/unknown-original-vintage-travel-poster-advertising-grand-hotel-quisisana-capri-italy\/id-a_1691673\/\">Travel poster advertising Grand Hotel Quisisana, in Capri, Italy, 1938<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After the war, de Lennart got to visit Capri. In an era when women in trousers were frequently barred from reputable establishments and could even be arrested for wearing men\u2019s clothes, de Lennart designed and donned pants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While she was walking on the beach in one of her creations, its legs got wet, and she realized that they needed to be shorter and tighter. She redesigned the garment and in the process, helped to bring into the world the classic silhouette we know today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During World War II, a pregnant de Lennart and her three-year-old daughter escaped advancing Russian troops and fled to Bavaria, where she set to work designing clothes to support her family. She chose the name Capri for her first collection, which debuted in 1945, because the island represented the peace, freedom and good times for which she yearned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonja-de-Lennart-with-models-wearing-her-creations-photo-by-Earl-Hartman-1-1-950x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonja-de-Lennart-with-models-wearing-her-creations-photo-by-Earl-Hartman-1-1-950x634.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonja-de-Lennart-with-models-wearing-her-creations-photo-by-Earl-Hartman-1-1-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonja-de-Lennart-with-models-wearing-her-creations-photo-by-Earl-Hartman-1-1-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonja-de-Lennart-with-models-wearing-her-creations-photo-by-Earl-Hartman-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonja-de-Lennart-with-models-wearing-her-creations-photo-by-Earl-Hartman-1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonja-de-Lennart-with-models-wearing-her-creations-photo-by-Earl-Hartman-1-1-1399x933.jpg 1399w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sonja-de-Lennart-with-models-wearing-her-creations-photo-by-Earl-Hartman-1-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><figcaption>Sonja de Lennart with models wearing her fashion designs, including capri pants. Photo by Earl Harman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although capri pants are often associated with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/emilio-pucci\/fashion\/\">Emilio Pucci<\/a>, he was just one of a group of Italian designers who promoted the style in the 1950s. Among these, Alessandro Ruocco, who owns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/wonderland-capri\/\">Wonderland Capri<\/a>, a prestigious vintage store that has done business on the island since 2012, has a decided preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy grandfather was the tailor who people say invented those pants,\u201d Ruocco states, referring to Sebastiano \u201cNello\u201d Spinella (born 1934). Spinella, a talented clothier who sewed garments for the international elite, including Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Kennedy and Brigitte Bardot, was said to whip off a pair of capris in just eight minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Lennart, however, seems to have precedence. Archival photos from 1945 attest that her capri pants predate the Italian ones by a number of years. Of course, fashion designs, like other ideas, can and do emerge independently from different creators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/baron-sterling-henry-nahum-sweet-laughing-filmstar-marilyn-monroe-laying-on-green-1954\/id-a_3042863\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_3_master-950x692.jpg\" alt=\"Baron Sterling Henry Nahum\nSweet and laughing Filmstar Marilyn Monroe is laying on the green, 1954\" class=\"wp-image-342263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_3_master-950x692.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_3_master-481x350.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_3_master-120x87.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_3_master-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Marilyn_3_master.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/black-white-photography\/baron-sterling-henry-nahum-sweet-laughing-filmstar-marilyn-monroe-laying-on-green-1954\/id-a_3042863\/\"><em>Sweet and laughing Film star Marilyn Monroe is laying on the green<\/em>, 1954, by Baron Sterling Henry Nahum<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two examples of de Lennart\u2019s creations from the 1940s were featured in the 2017\u201318 exhibition \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/is-fashion-modern-at-moma\/\">Items: Is Fashion Modern?<\/a>\u201d at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. \u201cThe capri pant symbolized a shift in the acceptance of pants as a fashionable style for women,\u201d says Stephanie Kramer, a fashion historian and teacher at the Fashion Institute of Technology, who worked on the MoMA show and wrote its catalogue entry on the trousers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their \u201cpositioning as a casual piece of leisure and vacation wear,\u201d she adds, &#8220;blurred the onetime distinctions between private and public, utilitarian and fashionable.\u201d This blurring allowed capris to be sported in a variety of settings. In other words, thanks to the capri, women got to wear pants more and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/milton-greene-audrey-hepburn-broom\/id-a_5154082\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Greene_Audrey_with_Broom1_master-950x636.jpg\" alt=\"Audrey Hepburn with Broom, 1955, by Milton Greene\" class=\"wp-image-342265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Greene_Audrey_with_Broom1_master-950x636.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Greene_Audrey_with_Broom1_master-523x350.jpg 523w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Greene_Audrey_with_Broom1_master-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Greene_Audrey_with_Broom1_master-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Greene_Audrey_with_Broom1_master.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/photography\/portrait-photography\/milton-greene-audrey-hepburn-broom\/id-a_5154082\/\"><em>Audrey Hepburn with Broom<\/em>, 1955, by Milton Greene<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And thanks in part to the numerous celebrities who adopted capris, women increasingly wanted to wear them. Pictures of Audrey Hepburn, who wore capris in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/wall-decorations\/posters\/funny-face-film-poster-1957\/id-f_7389773\/\">1957 movie <em>Funny Face<\/em><\/a>, helped to popularize the pants, and Marilyn Monroe was photographed in the sexy little trousers a number of times. Mary Tyler Moore pushed the envelope further in the 1960s by wearing capris on the <em>Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em>, despite the reservations of the show\u2019s sponsors. Broadcasting into American homes the image of a woman living her life in pants normalized the look and helped make trousers socially acceptable female dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let\u2019s celebrate Sonja de Lennart, her bravery and pioneering spirit, and let\u2019s celebrate her capri pants, which helped dismantle outdated dress codes and freed women to take bigger and bigger strides on the road to emancipation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a moment to celebrate fashion designer Sonja de Lennart, who turns 100 years old on May 21. Happy birthday, Sonja! Born in 1920 in Breslau, Prussia, de Lennart achieved fame for her design of the capri pant, the cropped, close-fitting trouser that has become a fashion staple. 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