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.
Fashion posters for printing. 18th century
We have a new post on Patreon about 18th 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.
Scarlet cap
In the second half of the 15th century (1450’s – 1490’s), brimless caps (or hats) entered men’s fashion. Caps were mostly scarlet, but sometimes black.
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.
Braies
The Braies (fr. Braies; de. Bruoch; pt. Bragas; ru. Брэ; da. Brog; no. Brok) are a type of panties, men’s undergarment.
Giubberello
The Giubberello is a short sleeveless gown for men with open sides. This type of clothing was popular during the Renaissance in Italy (modern territory) in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
Surcoat
The Surcoat (fr. Surcot) is an outer garment that was commonly worn in the Middle Ages. The name derives from French meaning “over the Cotte”.
Fashion posters for printing. 19th century
We have a new post on Patreon about 19th century fashion. 19th century. Men’s and Women’s headdresses fashion… here 19th century.
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.
Cotte and Cotehardie
The Cotte and The Cotehardie (eng. Kirtle) was a medieval outer garment, a dress that was worn over a chemise. Dress with narrow and long sleeves, long and fitted.
Japanese fan
Japanese fan in western fashion. In the second half of the 19th century, Western fashion entered Japan, but Japanese art also came to the West (mainly Europe).
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.
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.
Robe à Tassel
The Robe à Tassel is a type of overdress fashionable in Europe in the 15th century. Sometimes this type of overdress is called Burgundian gown, but this is not correct.
Delphos gown
The Delphos gown is a finely pleated silk dress first created in about 1907 by French designer Henriette Negrin and her husband, Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo (1871–1949).
Aquamanile
The Aquamanile (plural aquamanilia or simply aquamaniles; from lat. “aqua” – water and lat. “manus” – hand) – is a washstand, a ewer or jug-type vessel for washing hands in the form of an animal or human, sometimes several figures.
Jerkin
The Jerkin is a man’s short close-fitting jacket, without sleeves, worn over the doublet in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A Jerkin is outerwear, often made of leather, velvet and other warm fabrics.
Gable hood
The Gable hood (or English hood or gable headdress) is an English headdress from the first half of the 16th century.
1830 – 1839 Hairstyles
We have a new post on Patreon about “Headdresses and Hairstyles”. Part 4: 1830 – 1839. www.patreon.com/bloshka_project Year by year. Each page is one year.
Little Black Dress
The Little Black Dress. (fr. La Petite robe noire) is a fashionable dress designed by Gabrielle Chanel in 1926. Many historians argue that before Chanel, only widows wore black and she revolutionized fashion.
Hennin
The Hennin (nl: henninck ‘cock’; fr: hennin) is a tall women’s headdress with a frame made of whalebone, metal, starched linen or hard paper.
Banyan
The Banyan (through Portuguese banian and Arabic بنيان, banyān, meaning “merchant”) is a type of men’s homewear, a robe worn over clothing.
Fleur d’oranger
The Fleur d’oranger (eng. The Orange blossom) – snow-white flowers of an orange tree; borrowed from French in many languages. The Fleur d’oranger is a traditional part of the bride’s wedding headpiece, such as a wreath, bridal bouquet, or other jewelry for the bride.
Pluderhosen
Pluderhosen or Upper hose (also Upper hosen) – short, baggy trousers for men made of fabric, usually velvet, with vertical slits showing the lining, hence they were also called “filled trousers”, chausse à la gigotte, chausse bouffante, etc.
Engageantes
Engageantes are false sleeves (or rather cuffs), worn with women’s clothing. It is difficult to say when the removable sleeves or cuffs appeared, but in the 17th century, lace trim on underwear was a very prominent feature of women’s and men’s fashion.
Peineta
The Peineta is is a decorative comb, a hair ornament, consists of a convex body and a set of teeth that affix it to hair worn in a bun.
1890s Fashion
1890’s Brief history of fashion in pictures. Women’s and men’s, headdresses and hairstyles, underwear, wedding, sportswear, swimsuits and bathing suits
Spoon bonnet
The Spoon bonnet is a headgear, between a house bonnet and a hat. Bonnets were popular during the first half of the 19th century, but practicality fell out of fashion by the 1850s.
Mantua
The Mantua is style of gown, the late 17th – early 18th cent. Originally a loose gown, the later mantua was an overgown or robe typically worn over stays, stomacher and a petticoat.
Robe à la Française
The Robe à la Française is an 18th century women’s gown style. This is a set of different pieces of clothing: