Brunswick gown

The Brunswick gown, or simply Brunswick, was an 18th-century two-piece woman’s gown consisting of a jacket and a skirt, sometimes worn with a vest.Its main feature was a fitted jacket with a hood and two-part sleeves, usually made of the same fabric and color as the skirt.There were many variations of the Brunswick:

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.

Swirling hat

The So-Called “Swirling Hat” and the Problem of Naming Roll Headdresses of the 15th Century The headwear sometimes described in modern writing as the “Swirling hat”, “Rings of Saturn”, or “roll hat” refers to a type of layered circular headdress visible in European art of the 15th and early 16th centuries.