By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com The Queen Magazine 1861 More C19th important fashion magazines are dealt with on earlier pages. In the main the French fashion magazines made more impact than any other publications. All others looked to France for inspiration. One of the longest-running English female magazines was The Queen magazine which began …
1800 Mens Fashion Plates
Antique Fashion & Costume Plates By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Male Fashion Through Fashion Plates 1800-1900 The carefully selected fashion plates from James Laver’s Fashions and Fashion Plates 1800 – 1900, a petite little 18cm by 12cm book of 1943, includes some reprints of men’s fashion plates from all the well known fashion journals …
Victorian Children’s Clothes Fashion Plates
Victorian children’s clothing was highly gendered, formal, modest, and involved layering with pastel colors, lightweight fabrics, hats, and simple leather shoes.
Children in Costume History 1810 to 1820 Fashions for Regency Girls
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com These costume colouring in pictures reflect the variety of clothes styles girls mostly wore. Colouring in Pictures of Early C19th Regency Children’s Costume 1810 – 1820 The fashion for girls hardly changed, although sleeves showed more fullness as they were gathered into the shoulder and squarer necklines were used …
1950s Teenage Male Fashion History – Teddy Boys
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com The Growth of Teenagers as a Market Force in 1950’s Society 1950s Teenagers Until 1950 the term teenagers had never before been coined. Children were known as girls and boys were known as youths once they displayed signs of puberty. Then young people were grown up at 18 and …
1950s Dressmaking Patterns – Glamour Fashion Fifties Sewing Pattern History
Some popular patterns in 1950s fashion were polka dots, stripes, gingham checks, floral prints, and geometric shapes.
1950s Timeline Chart – 1950-1960
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com The scientific and mass production advances made during the Second World War meant that the fifties changed forever the way people lived, for example, technological changes in fibres, communication and medicine. The fifties changed all our lives so that we do live differently now. Take a look at some …
Pictures of 1950s Coats and Suits – 1955 Fashion Plates
1950s coat fashion plates
1950s Underwear 1950s Underwear Adverts of Fifties Corselette Girdles, Bras & SlipsGirdles, Bras and Corselettes – Fashion Glamour History
A look into the changes of undergarments in fashion history from girdles to french knickers set.
Baby Christening Cape
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Christening Fashions in the Victorian Era Whilst pregnancy and birth were quiet private occasions for the Victorians, the whole family looked forward to the public occasion of the christening as an event of celebration. The Church insisted that babies were christened in a white garment, a symbol of purity and …