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Womens Fashion
Common Designs in Antique Clothing.One- or two-piece trimmed shirtwaist dresses in white, black, or brown.A white, high-necked, trimmed cotton blouse with a heavier, dark skirt.Sheer white afternoon gowns with extensive handwork.Tailor-made jackets and skirts for working women.Silk evening gowns either in high-necked day style or with sultry bare arms and neck.Fabrics Available Natural fibers (linen, cotton, wool, and silk); cotton or linen was choice for most households' daily -
Tweed
Many women chose to wear tweed as it made them look up class. -
Womens evening fashion
In 1910 fashion began to loosen up. French designers like Paul Poiret encouraged the trend after 1907 by designing women’s clothes for an uncorseted figure. Their clothes were softer in line and followed a woman’s body rather than forcing the body to conform to clothing as previous designers had done -
Brighter Clothing
1920's ladies fashions featured brighter and more vibrant colors than fashions from the previous decades. Following on from the depressing circumstances of the Great War (Now known as World War 1) and the post-war recession, most people were hoping for a better future with greatly improved living conditions. This widespread optimism was publicly expressed in the bright colors of fashionable clothing like dresses, coats, hats, shoes, stockings, handbags and other fashion accessories for the well. -
Womens dresses
Over the course of the 1930s, there was a general change in the style of women’s fashion from that of the previous decade. This slim line was enhanced by cutting clothes on the bias, going across the fabric, which avoided the use of unslightly bunches of gathers at the waist for full skirts, whilst still allowing material to flow and drape. The erogenous zone shifted to the back, especially for evening wear, with dresses being made with low or no backs. Meanwhile, hair was grown long again and b -
Shortages and difficulties
One of the most popular eras for reproduction and vintage wear, women's fashion in the 1940s combined style and practicality to achieve a lasting elegance. This came as a surprise to those who lived through the era and remembered it for its shortages and difficulties, as well as some drabness. Wartime fashion presented a challenge, and everyone rose to that challenge as they did the much larger global one - with stellar results. The 1940s saw two distinctive styles in women's clothing. -
Amazing gowns
From the mid-1950s, a new unfitted style of clothing appeared as an alternative to the tight waist and full skirt associated with the New Look. Spanish designerBalenciaga had shown unfitted suits in Paris as early as 1951 and unfitted dresses from 1954, and Dior showed an A-line dress in 1955, but these styles only slowly gained acceptance by the wider public.[14][15] Coco Chanel made a comeback in 1954 and an important look of the latter 1950s was the Chanel suit, with a braid-trimmed cardigan. -
New styles
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Shorter Styles
In fashion, the 1960's began with crew cuts on men and bouffant hairstyles on women. Men's casual shirts were often plaid and buttoned down the front, while knee-length dresses were required wear for women in most public places. By mid-decade though, miniskirts or hot pants, often worn with go-go boots, were revealing legs, bodywear was revealing curves, and women's hair was either very short or long and lanky. Men's hair became longer and wider along with beards and moustaches. Menswear too had -
Bright Colours
By 1964 the teenage influence caused the hemlines to creep up, and most teenagers were wearing mid-thigh length shifts as daywear. The sweater-dress was also very popular with young girls from 1961 onwards, until the mid-60s when other innovative designs were introduced. 1965 saw the premiere of culotte dresses in op-art or vibrant coloured patters (think Peter Max or Pucci) and these were most popular as evening or party wear; culottes had the freedom of trousers but the look of a full skirt. 1 -
Low cut clothing
The 1970s were literally the "anything goes" decade. For some, the uglier and clunkier the fashion, the better. For others, soft and feminine was the answer. No matter what you "dug" though, making a fashion statement reached its apex in the 1970s.
The 1970s were an intensely tumultuous time, with various cultures and subcultures coming out into the open at once. Cynicism abounded as militant feminism, Civil Rights, the Watergate scandal, and the Vietnam War brought gritty reality to the forefr -
Vibrant Colours
The initial years of the 90s saw a continuance of fashion trends from the 1980s. Any teen or even kid of the 90s will remember the influence of MTV. The pop culture also acted as a major influence on the fashion scene in this decade. Remember movies like Clueless, or television series like Beverly Hills 90210 and Dawson's Creek? They were almost inspirational to most! From there came jeans that were commonly known as hipster jeans, for they rested on the hips, tapered jeans (a massive fashion di
