Fashion history 1890 1910s

Fashion History 1890-1910’s Fashion trends repeat every 20 – 30 years 1890’s Victorian Era Cultural Influences of 1800’s • Civil War. • Industrial Revolution. • Invention of the Power Loom & Cotton Gin. • Retail department stores, Mail order catalogs. • Levi Strauss introduces denim work pants. • Men adopt business suits.

Fashion History1890-1910’s

Fashion trends repeat every 20 – 30 years

Victorian Era

• Men adopt business suits.

Bustle is a type of framework

used to expand the fullness or support the drapery of the back

of a woman's dress, occurring predominantly between the

'The New Woman' who was competitive, sporty and emancipated as well as beautiful Her clothes were

fashionable in both America and Britain and set a fashion for skirts worn with embroidered blouses

Another Gibson look was a shirt collar worn with either a tie, floppy artist bow, tie neck cravat with

stick pin bar brooch or crosscut ruffle jabot

The Gibson Girl

The Ideal American Woman

Stayed popular up to 1920’s

Corsets of 1890

A corset is a garment that

shapes the torso according to the fashionable silhouette of the day It has been used for cinching the waist and supporting the breasts

Corsets of the 1890’s created an exaggerated hourglass shape but as corsets

remained popular in the early 1900’s the shape created became more S-bend.

Corsets

Exaggerated HourglassSilhouette

Industrial Revolution Era.

• Automobiles.

• Women’s rights.

• Women go to War & Work

• Modern Fashion Shows begin.• Art, ballet & film impact fashion.

• War time requires more practical clothing.

Influences of 1900’s – 1910’s

Duster Coat

Women wore dust coats to protect

clothing while riding in the new automobile.

Shirtwaist

Leg O Mutton Sleeves

S Curve Body Shape

Fashions of 1910WWI Era

Hobble Skirt

A long skirt very narrow below the knees, worn between 1910 and 1914

fashion statement

• The wearing of bloomers was influenced by the invention of bicycle.

Wide at the shoulders and narrow at the feet.

The Elongated Inverted TriangleSilhouette