Indian Fashion History

Modern Lehenga Dupatta Style

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comPictures of Indian Dress FashionI hope you enjoy viewing the wide variety of traditional Indian dress styles featured on this page.  In addition to the pictures, I will explain the component garments such as the lehenga, choli, dupatta and the different types of sari (saree).Vibrant Fashion IndiaTwenty fashion designers across …

Fashion History

The Queen Magazine

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comThe Queen Magazine 1861More 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 in 1861.  Samuel …

Fashion History

1800 Mens Fashion Plates

Antique Fashion & Costume PlatesBy Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comMale Fashion Through Fashion Plates 1800-1900The 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 of the C19th …

Childrens Clothes

Children in Costume History 1810 to 1820 Fashions for Regency Girls

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comThese costume colouring in pictures reflect the variety of clothes styles girls mostly wore.Colouring in Pictures of Early C19th Regency Children’s Costume 1810 – 1820The fashion for girls hardly changed, although sleeves showed more fullness as they were gathered into the shoulder and squarer necklines were used more.  Hair remained …

1950s

1950s Teenage Male Fashion History – Teddy Boys

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comThe Growth of Teenagers as a Market Force in 1950’s Society1950s TeenagersUntil 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 fully adult legally at …

1950s

1950s Timeline Chart – 1950-1960

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comThe 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 1950s events …