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 …
Pelisse, Paletot and Pardessus Fashion History
The 19th-century pelisse coats are a blend of timeless elegance and functional warmth for historical fashion lovers.
Indian Lac Costume Jewellery
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com How Indian Costume Jewellery of Rajasthan is Made Some months ago when jewellery wholesaler and exporter Pradeep Kapur of Jaipur India first wrote to me, I began at last to put a name to the intriguing traditional Lac enamel fashion jewellery from India I’ve seen occasionally before. I had …
Salwar Kameez / Shalwar Kameez | Asian Pyjama Leggings
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com The Salwar Kameez / Shalwar Kameez Asian Pyjama Trouser Pant Leggings The Salwar Kameez is worn more than the sari in Pakistan, especially since the changes of 1947. The sari is considered Hindu dress and retained as formal dress for two extremes – older women familiar with it pre-1950s and …