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Victorians

Edwardian Cape

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com table of content Typical Fancy Fabrics for 1890’s Cloaks and Capes The history of fashion would be nothing without fabrics.  For cloaks, capes and capelets a wide range of fabrics were used including wool, figured cloth, wool Melton, satin, silk, pleated chiffon, velvet, velveteen, bourdon lace, lace, moiré, taffeta …

Fashion History

Capes to Poncho, Pashmina and Pareo 1900-2000

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Capes and Cloaks New styles of coats emerged during the 1900s.  Many were a cross between a cloak and a coat.  Cloak styles showed new influences and often had trailing art nouveau patterns with oriental inspired lines. The change in silhouette around 1908 and the trend to a straighter …

Hats and Hair

Pictures of Medieval Women’s Hairstyles & Headwear 1327-1485 | English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop

1327-1485 – Women’s Hair & Headdresses Edited By Pauline Weston Thomas For Fashion-Era.com 1327-1485 – Women’s Hair & Headdresses As Shown In ‘English Costume History by Dion Clayton Calthrop’ This costume history page is about hair fashion history. It consists of a selection of women only headdresses and hairstyle illustrations with original text from 1327 …

Fashion Resources

How To Make a Pareo – Free Pareo Pattern and Instructions for Easy Wrap Zorro Cloak

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com What is a Pareo? A Pareo is almost the simplest of capes to make.  It is a long length of wool fabric about 70 to 80 inches made from 60-inch wide cloth that is slit and very lightly shaped part way up the center fold. This is an item …