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History of Fashion Flashcards

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1920s Style

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  • Simplified styles and shorter skirts: ‘flapper’ or ‘Charleston dress’ provided a flat, androgynous silhouette
  • Comfortable table kitted fabrics and artificial silks
  • biased cuts, drapings, flounces asymmetrical and uneven hems popular
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Bauhaus

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  • Fusion of art and technology with function and efficiency most important
  • Concrete, metal, glass and plaster
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1930s Style

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  • Flowing fabrics
  • Calf length
  • Accentuated at the waist
  • Narrow at the hips
  • Flared hem
  • Shoulders accentuated with pads- war influences
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1920s Context

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  • Passing of 19th Amendment
  • Lost generation
  • Rebellion from war
  • Roaring twenties (Gatsby)
  • Androgynous silhouette = power
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1930s Context

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  • Aftermath of economic crisis 1929
  • Frugality enforced by unemployment
  • Socialism, Communism, Fascism
  • Art developed v little
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1940s Style

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  • Narrow designs
  • Emphasized shoulders
  • Knee length skirts
  • Pencil line: tight fitting, long narrow skirts
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1947

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  • Haute couture revived in Paris. Christian Dior with his new, feminine fashion for women, known as the ‘New Look’
  • New Look: Calf Length, wide flared skirts, rounded shoulders
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1940s Context

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  • WW2
  • Very few fashion developments until after the war
  • Shortage of fabric: ‘waste not- want not’
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1950s Style

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  • Sim skirts
  • Narrow Waist
  • Pencil line, tulip line, Y-line and Empire line
  • bouncing skirts and petticoats
  • Emphasis on hips, fluid waistline and blouse like top
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1950s Context

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  • Huge developments due to rise in economy
  • Exclusivity of haute couture converted into wearable fashions
  • Huge influence from US
  • desire to stay young, teenage culture popularized
  • Fashion modeled after film stars and pop idols
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1960s Style

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  • Sporty casual style
  • Loose jumpers, shirt dresses
  • Blousons, long waistcoats and pinafore dresses
  • Chanel suit, mini skirt and ladies trousers
  • Futuristic fashion: geometrical patterns, black and white and white and silbver designs
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1960s Context

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  • Liberation from constraints and taboos
  • ‘Youth’ style still hugely popular
  • Space travel and abstract art huge influences
  • ‘Anti- fashion’ movements aklso popular: ‘hippy’ and ‘nostalgic’ fashions against consumerism society
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1970s Style

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  • Mini pleated skirts
  • Flared trousers
  • Shirt dresses
  • Fitted blazers
  • Skirt hemlines fell below the knee again
  • Romantic/ folklore look: frills, flounces and embroidery
  • Over-size styles
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1970s Context

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  • fashion extremely wide-ranging: people composed their own individual look
  • Disco fashion became popular: loud colours, shiny materials
  • Punk fashion: non-conformist fashion, skin tight leather and shocking hairstyles
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1980s Style

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  • predominantly casual look
  • Simple, comfortable cut
  • Slim, swirling silhouette competed with voluminous, very wide layered look
  • Waist accentuated
  • Sleeves cut generously for freedom of movement
  • Shoulders often emphasised
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1980s Context

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  • Diverse and differentiated
  • Reflected a range of diverse lifestyles
  • Emphasis on leisure and ‘healthy lifestyle’ - sportswear became popular
  • More opportunites for women in the work place encouraged ‘power dressing’
  • Skirt lengths varied
  • Youth fashions moved away from punk style towards a more wholesome look
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1990s Style

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  • Narrow trousers or leggings combined with longer upper-garments
  • Re-emergence of femininity brought back the dress
  • ‘Bodyfashion’ introduced bodycon: bodysuits substituted blouses
  • Youth fashion demanded an exposed navel: hipster pants, crop tops, overlength pants and stretch minis
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1990s Context

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  • synthetic fabrics came under criticism for negative impact on environment
  • ‘Techno wave’ popularised new high-tech fabrics such as fleece, microfibre and membrane systems, especially in outdoor wear
  • stretch fabrics eg. jersey influenced ‘bodyfashion’
  • Retro fashions revived the looks of the 30s, 40s and 50s where Youth fashion was more aimed at the 60s and 70s
  • Layered look came from grunge- anti-fashion trend
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Yohji Yamamoto

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  • Designed garments that blurred gender categories and made a feature of asymmetrical styles
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Armani

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  • Based his ‘working women’s wardrobe’ on traditional men’s suits
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Issey Miyake

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  • Designed garments from circular and rectangular fabric shapes which did not follow the shape of the body and combined comfort with practicality

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