Fashion Through the Ages

Clothing trends â la mode:

various examples of fashions spanning from the 17th century to the 21st.

1600s:

 Wenceslaus Hollar’s Fashion Engravings, c. 1640s -

 

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1700s:

 A Mantua Court Dress, c. 1740 -

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1800s:

Portrait of a woman looking into a mirror -

Victorian Roller Derby women - 

c. late 1800s- Women in matching dresses -

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1900s:

London, spring/summer 1906 street scenes -

 

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1910s:

F. Scott Fitzgerald in drag, c. 1910 -

Fashions worn at the Auteuil Races, c. 1911 -

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1920s:

Children Dressed as flowers, c. 1920 -

Agatha Christie and her surfboard 'Fred', c. 1922 -

Making sure the swim suit hem is No Higher than 6" above the knee, c. 1922 -

The High Price of Looking Good, and 'American Venus', c. 1926 - 

Ziegfeld Follies girl -

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1930s:

Making sure Peggy Graves meets US Bikini Laws, 1933 -

Mae West in bat costume, 1934 -

Deauville beach fashion (notice the shoes), 1938 -

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1940s:

”Lightning dress creator” Alphonse Berge could create a dress out a single sheet of fabric in 20 seconds, 1940 -

Marilyn Monroe (yes, really!) doing "war work" - 1945 

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1950s:

Circus performers (the first of which resembles Amy Poehler, to me at least), c. early 1950s

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1960s:

Melvin Sokolsky in Paris for Harper’s Bazaar, 1963 -

This Yves St. Laurent crochet wedding dress is a swing and a miss, in my opin -  

Martha Stewart modeling a fur trimmed quilted maxi skirt suit -

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1970s:

Slack Power at JCPenney -

 When glossy mag meets real life -

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1980s:

Utah's perms -

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{ all photos via Retronaut }

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