Sometimes such trivial problems of the past as food, fashion, lifestyle and leisure can be most revealing about a particular system and the way people lived in it. They can tell us much about people's daily problems and habits, their lack of goods and extravagance, their wishes and needs; there are subjects about which political history usually remains silent. One such marginal problem is fashion, or, in our case, clothing fashion and the clothing culture of Slovenians. The article will try to add to the mosaic of Slovenian historiography and trigger additional studies in the field which can tell us much about how Slovenian women and men lived in the past. We will try to answer questions such as what, how and how much fashion was written about in Slovenia in two politically, economically and culturally different historical periods ofthe 20th century. The periodicals which represent the period between the wars are the fashion magazine Vesna, the family magazine Mladika, and two women's magazines, Ženski svet, and Žena in dom. The second period, extending from the end of the Second World War to the end of the sixties, is represented by the fashion magazines Moda and Maneken, and the women's or family magazine Naša žena.