Fashion Timeline

  • Cotton Gin invented

  • Mormons Denounce Fornication Pants

    men's pants are first tailored with buttons visible down the front of the fly
  • First Department Stores

  • Hoop Skirt Developed

  • First Synthetic Dye Invented

  • Early Bra Invented

  • Bloomingdale’s Mail-Order Catalogs

  • Levi Strauss Jeans Designs Logo

  • Hourglass Silhouette

  • Coco Chanel started her clothing business

  • J.M. Hollister founded Hollister

  • Closed-Crotch Underwear in Fashion

  • Glamour Magazine Published

  • Polo started

  • Victoria Secret started

  • American Eagle started

  • Michael Kors started his company

  • 7 Jeans started

  • Hollister started

  • Miss Me jeans came out