Fashion History A3

  • 1920

    1920
    Around this time women were gaining more rights for themselves and with this came more comfortable clothes
  • 1930

    1930
    Women’s fashion shifted to a wardrobe of femininity, and at the start of the 1930s, trends emphasized the natural waistline as way to close out the boyish look of 1920s fashion.
  • 1940

    1940
    Skirts now became longer for women. There was an emphasis on the waist and less emphasis on the shoulders. Men continued to wear full three piece suits.
  • 1950

    1950
    Happy Days is a show that characterizes the time. Fonzie in his jeans and T-shirt, Richie in his letterman jacket, and Jonie wearing poodle skirts with cat's eye glasses. James Dean and Elvis further perpetuated these styles and the youth of the day adopted them
  • 1960

    1960
    Now began the days where fashion became more rebellious then fashionable. Miniskirts, go-go boots, hot pants, and tie dye were the fashion of the day and Austin Powers would never be the same.
  • 1970s

    1970s
    Hippies, flower power, and Woodstock. Bell bottoms became the symbol of the early to mid-1970s, but with the onset of the disco era bell bottoms
  • 1980

    1980
    Skinny jeans, piercing, crazy hair.
  • 1990s

    1990s
    fashion dies off. At the beginning of this time period skater and grunge began,
  • 2002

    2002
    A time of unnecessary embellishments and bedazzlements on jeans paired with dangly faux-leather or scarf belts that were never intended to actually hold up your pants.
  • 2006

    2006
    It would not be until 2006 that skinny jeans would gain more steam in fashion world, and by this time skinny jeans were being sold at shopping malls.[
  • 2010

    2010
    have thus far been defined by slim-fitted clothing, a revival of austerity era period pieces, 1980s neon colors