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1900
in European and European-influenced countries continued the long elegant lines of the Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's broad hats and full "Gibson girl" hairstyles. They focused on their figures. -
1910
Material became much more soft and Simple felt hats, turbans, and clouds of tulle replace 1900 hats. -
1920
The 1920s was the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first liberated themselves from constricting fashions and began to wear comfortable clothes (such as short skirts or pants). Men likewise abandoned overly formal clothes and began to wear sport clothes for the first time. The suits which men still wear today are still based, for the most part, on those which were worn by men in the late 1920s. The 1920s were characterized by two distinct periods of -
1930
The lighthearted, forward-looking attitude and fashions of the 1920s gradually came to halt. The trend continued for most of 1930, but by the end of that year when the effects of the Great Depression began to affect the public, a more conservative approach to fashion displaced that of the 1920s. For women, skirts became longer and the waist-line was returned up to its normal position in an attempt to bring back the traditional "feminine" look. Other aspects of fashion from the 1920s took longer -
1940
Paris's isolated situation in the 1940s enabled the Americans to exploit the ingenuity and creativity of their own designers. Among young men in the War Years the zoot suit (and in France the zazou suit) became popular. Many actresses of the time, including Rita Hayworth, Katharine Hepburn, and Marlene Dietrich, had a significant impact on popular fashion. The couturier Christian Dior created a tidal wave with his first collection in February 1947. The collection contained dresses with tiny wais -
1950
Flying in the face of continuity, logic, and erudite sociological predictions, fashion in the 1950s, far from being revolutionary and progressive, bore strong nostalgic echoes of the past. A whole society which, in the 1920s and '30s, had greatly believed in progress, was now much more circumspect. Despite the fact that women had the right to vote, to work, and to drive their own cars, they chose to wear dresses made of opulent materials, with corseted waists and swirling skirts to mid-calf. As -
1960
Until the 1960s Paris was considered to be the center of fashion throughout the world. However, in between 1960 and 1969 a radical shake-up occurred in the fundamental structure of fashion. From the 1960s onward there would never be just one single, prevailing trend or fashion but a great plethora of possibilities, indivisibly linked to all the various influences in other areas of people's lives. For perhaps the first time in history there was an independent youth fashion, that was not based on -
1970
Nick-named the 'me' decade, 'please yourself' was the catchword of the 1970s. Many saw it as the end of good taste. The decade began with a continuation of the hippie look of the late 1960s. Jeans remained frayed, tie dye was still popular, and the fashion for unisex mushroomed. The 1970s were literally the "anything goes" decade. For some, the uglier and clunkier the fashion, the better. For others, soft and feminine was the answer. No matter what style, making a fashion statement reached its a -
1980
Spandex, and viscose became widely-used, and fashion, after two decades of looking to the future, once again turned to the past for inspiration. Mixed colors were normally worn. -
1990
little close were worn the more spandex and tights were more often worn. -
2000
In the '00s, fashion, and indeed the Arts in general, looked to the past for inspiration, arguably more so than in previous decades. Vintage clothing, especially from the Sixties, Seventies, and Eighties became extremely popular and fashion designers often sought to emulate bygone styles in their collections. -
2010
2010 was all about the details. Bold lipcolor, fur trim, a hint of skin. it was simple but still detailed.
