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Fashion of 1600s – 1620s
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).