Medici collar
The Medici collar (de.Stuartkragen, Medicikragen; fr. Collerette) is flared, stand-up, fan-shaped, standing high behind the head, often layered, trimmed with lace or consisting only of lace.
Bowler hat
The Bowler hat (or Derby (United States); de. Melone; fr. Chapeau melon; it. Bombetta; nl. Bolhoed) is a headdress, a felt hat with a round crown, small, rounded brim, almost always black.
Hood and Chaperon
The Hood (fr. Capuche, Chaperon; nl. Capuchon; it. Cappuccio; es. Capucha; de. Kapuze, Gugel) is a headdress that has many different shapes and names.
1880s fashion
1880’s Brief history of fashion in pictures. Women’s and men’s wear, headdresses and hairstyles, underwear, kids and sportswear.
Briefly about 16th century, Spain and Portugal
Briefly about hairstyles and headdress, 16th century. Spain and Portugal
Hair coloring
Hair coloring has been known since very ancient times. There are many dyes, chemical reagents that change hair color. But now let’s talk about lightening hair in the Renaissance.
Peignoir
A peignoir is a type of home wear designed to protect clothes from hair, powder and cosmetics. The peignoir appeared around the end of the 16th –
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).
1800s 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 called gaiters) are a type of clothing that cover part of the shoe, the ankle, and extend almost to the knee or even 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.
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.
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.
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).
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.