By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com I have drawn a variety of shapes to illustrate women’s fashion silhouettes from 1940. These illustrations capture the elements of silhouettes found in old magazines such as Le Petit Echo de la Mode, Butterick and McCall’s pattern books of the day. I have redrawn them in my own style …
Costume Silhouettes 1930s
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com Fashion Silhouettes Timeline Drawings The fashion history era between 1930 and 1932 is one which shows a new line, a new silhouette. I have studied costume drawings and fashion plates of the thirties and then I have redrawn them in my own style. After I made these simple line …
Pictures of Early Medieval Womens Hair & Headdresses 1066-1327 | Medieval Hairstyles
Edited By Pauline Weston Thomas For Fashion-Era.com This costume history page is about Medieval Hairstyles. It consists of a selection of women-only headdresses and hairstyle illustrations and text from 1066 to 1327 all taken from Calthrop’s English Costume. They are as shown in individual Calthrop costume pages for specific eras on 36 other pages in …
1930s Hair and Hats Fashion History
1930s hair and hats fashion history including Marie Claire History and Hat Pictures.
Fashion History Image of College Women of the 1970s Hairstyles
Get groovy with 70s women’s hairstyles! From bohemian waves to sleek bobs, channel the iconic fashion of the era and make a bold fashion statement.
Mantle Clothing
A brief history of Mantle, Mantelet, Mantles Clothing and Epaulet Fashion History .
Jacket Synonym
An introduction to the names possible for coats and cloaks often confusing to the costume beginner. Many terms like Mantles, mantelets, cloaks, capes, capelets and pelerines pelisse, pardessus, paletot, and redingote confuse and mystify – but all are coats, jackets or upper body cover ups.
Victorian Cape
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com From Victorian Romantic Era to Edwardian Cloaks and Capes Fashion history shows that women are ever changing their minds about long versus and short and it was the same with cloaks. As well as longer versions, shorter cloaks were in vogue from 1850 and were ideal cover ups for …
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 …
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 …