Fashion of 1600’s – 1620’s
Engravings with the fashion of different countries of the 1st quarter of the 17th cent.
Turban, 20th century
A Turban is a headdress that has been fashionable since the Middle Ages. We wrote a separate post about the history of the turban in Western fashion before the 19th century.
Flappers
Flappers are the ultra-trendy, fashionable, emancipated young women of the 1920s. These girls are the symbol of the Roaring Twenties. If we talk about the fashion of the 1920s, it is the flappers that personify this style.
Dressing Gown
The Dressing Gown (or morning gown) is a robe, a loose-fitting outer garment. Dressing Gown is a kind of home wear, almost like a banyan in women’s fashion.
Poke bonnet
The Poke bonnet is a type of headgear derived from a bonnet and a hat. Poke bonnet appears at the beginning of the 19th century, and comes from the fashionable Chapeau à la Paméla (hat with a brim, pressed with a ribbon or veil on the sides).
1800’s Fashion
1800’s Brief history of fashion in pictures. Women’s and men’s wear, headdresses and hairstyles, underwear, kids wear and shoes
Easter bonnet
An Easter bonnet is a new or fancy hat (headgear) traditionally worn at Easter. In many countries there was a custom to wear new clothes for Easter.
1840 – 1849 Hairstyles
We have a new post on Patreon about “Headdresses and Hairstyles”. Part 5: 1840 – 1849. www.patreon.com/posts/64661799 Year by year. Each page is one year.
Sailor suit
Sailor suit or Sailor dress is a style in children’s and women’s clothing with special details inspired by sailors. The sailor suit came into children’s fashion in 1846, when the son of the British Queen Victoria was given a “little sailor”
Bliaud
The Bliaut or Bliaud is an overdress worn in the Middle Ages. The Bliaud has a lot of design options, but the main difference is the long gown with very thin and voluminous sleeves.
Suffragette
March 8 – International Women’s Day. It is based on suffragism, emancipation and various types of women’s struggle for rights. Under the name Suffragettes, we will bring together different types of women’s rights activists, although this applies to a greater extent to the history of the United States.
Spatterdashes and Spats
Spatterdashes (sometimes Gaiters) – a type of clothing that covers part of the shoe, the ankle and reaches almost to the knee or sometimes higher.
Breeches and culottes
Breeches are trousers (pants) length below the knee. Breeches are sometimes called “culottes”, but this often refers to trousers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Posters for printing. 18th century
We have a new post on Patreon about 19th century fashion. 18th century men’s and women’s fashion posters… here 18th century.
Lamé
The Lamé is a type of fabric woven or knit with thin ribbons of metallic fiber usually gold or silver, but sometimes copper, in color.
Garter
The Garter is a band worn to keep up a stocking, sock or chausses to the leg. Usually a garter is worn around the leg, but sometimes stockings are attached to other types of garments with garters (garter belt, corselet, sock braces, girdle, etc.).
Quilted wear
Quilted clothes has existed for a very long time, it is even impossible to say when it appeared. Until the 18th century, quilted garments were most commonly used as underwear, such as a petticoat or doublet.
Poulaines
The Poulaines (or Crakows; crackowes; pl. ciżemki; de. Schnabelschuh; sv. Snabelskor) are fashionable medieval shoes with very long toes. They were so named because the style was thought to have originated in Kraków, though the term “Poulaine”, as in souliers à la poulaine, “shoes in the Polish fashion”, referred to the long pointed beak of the shoe, not the shoe itself.
Men’s style in women’s wear
Men’s style in women’s wear is not a very old trend, a little over 100 years old. Men’s and women’s clothing has always been different.
Jewel Book of the Anna of Bavaria
Jewel Book of the Duchess Anna of Bavaria (de. Kleinodienbuch der Herzogin Anna von Bayern), 1552 – 1555, by Hans Mielich.
Tippet
The Tippet (tippets) is (are) long, narrow, cloth streamer, usually white, worn around the arm above the elbow, with the long end hanging down to the ground.
Heuke
The Heuke, or Cloak on one shoulder, was a popular garment in medieval Europe. Cloaks worn on one shoulder have been known since ancient times.
Redingote
The Redingote is a long dress-coat, fitted overcoat with a flared skirt, that came into vogue as an adaptation of a Riding Habits.
Parasol
The Umbrella existed as far back as the 11th century BC. It is this time that is considered the time of the invention of the umbrella.
Robe à l’Anglaise
The Robe à l’Anglaise or the Close-bodied gown was a women’s fashion of the 18th century. This type of gown came into French fashion (and throughout the world, everywhere except English it calls “à l’Anglaise”) from England and featured a fitted bodice.
Robe à la Polonoise
The Robe à la Polonoise (or Polonaise; ru. Роб а ля Полонез; pl. Poloneska; es. Polonesa) is a woman’s gown of the later 1770s and 1780s.
Cruselers
The Frilled veil or Cruselers (de. Krüseler) – this woman’s headdress, which was fashionable in Europe in the 14th – 15th centuries.
Wulsthaube, Steuchlein
The Wulsthaube or Steuchlein is a German female headdress derived from a bonnet. Steuchlein consists of Schleier (veil), Unterhaube (undercap) and Wulst (bulge) – a padded cushion at the back of the head.
Doublet
The Doublet (fr. Pourpoint; ru. Дублет; de. Wams; es. Jubón; it. Farsetto) is a men’s snug-fitting jacket . The Doublet appears in the mid-14th century, and comes from the clothing worn by knights under armor.
Bangs
Bangs or a fringe (de. Pony; fr. Frange; ru. Чёлка; es. Flequillo; it. Frangia), are part of the hairstyle; front hairline covering the forehead, usually just above the eyebrows, though can range to various lengths.
Houppelande
The Houppelande (es. Hopalanda; it. Pellanda) is an overdress, with a long, full body and flaring sleeves, that was worn by both men and women in Europe in the late 14th century – 1430’s.
Mobcap
The Mobcap (fr. Bonnet à la Dormeuse) is a round, gathered or pleated bonnet consisting of a caul to cover the hair, a frilled or ruffled brim, and a ribbon band.
Zimarra
The Zimarra (fr. Marlotte; nl. and eng. Vlieger; es. Zamarra or Ropa) is a woman’s coat, overgown. The name “Zimarra” may have come from Spain or Portugal (Zamarra), later the same name was given to men’s religious clothing (eng.
1890’s Fashion
1890’s Brief history of fashion in pictures. Women’s and men’s, headdresses and hairstyles, underwear, wedding, sportswear, swimsuits and bathing suits
Hobble skirt
The Hobble skirt (de. Humpelrock; nl. Strompelrok) is a skirt with a narrow hem. Hobble skirts were a fashion trend that peaked between 1908 and 1914.
Chantilly lace
The Chantilly lace (fr. La dentelle de Chantilly) is a handmade bobbin lace named after the city of Chantilly (France). In the 17th century, the Duchesse de Longueville organised the manufacture of lace at Chantilly.
Gigot sleeve
The Gigot sleeve or the leg-of-mutton sleeve, was named for its resemblance to a sheep’s hind leg: wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
Hanging pockets
The Hanging pockets are separate small bags or pouches. In the 15th-18th centuries, pockets were an independent accessory for a woman’s costume.
Stomacher
The Stomacher is a decorated triangular panel as part of a corset. The Stomacher put on a corset and fastened with pins.
Half hat
The Half hat is a headdress, a style of a hat, that sits on the back of the head, covering the top of the head.
Brunswick gown
The Brunswick gown or Brunswick is a two-piece (jacket and skirt) woman’s gown of the 18th century. The Brunswick consisted of a jacket and a skirt, but sometimes there was also a vest.
New Look
The “New Look” is the name given in 1947 by the editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar, Carmel Snow, to the silhouette created by the couturier Christian Dior for the “Corolle” collection.
Snood
The Snood is a type of headgear designed to hold the hair in a cloth or yarn bag. The Snood is a type of hairnet, only slightly thicker.
Marcel Waves
The “Marcel Waves” is a type of hair styling that appeared at the end of the 19th century and reached its peak in popularity at the 1910’s – 1930’s.
Gorget
The Gorget is a fashionable accessory, a high collar covering the neck, ears and part of the hair. The Gorget was popular in the 13th – 15th centuries.
Calash bonnet
The Calash bonnet (or hood) is a headgear from the last quarter of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, also called the “Bashful Bonnet” or Calèche.
1800 – 1809 Hairstyles
We have a new post on Patreon about “Headdresses and Hairstyles”. Part 1: 1800 – 1809. https://www.patreon.com/bloshka_project Year by year. Each page is one year.
