Fashion World History

THE FASHION WORLD HISTORY 1100-1200 COSTUME DURING THE TWELFTH CEN- TURY IN EUROPE WAS SIMPLE AND DIFFERED ONLY IN DETAILS FROM THE CLOTHING OF THE PRECEDING CENTU- RIES. MEN WORE KNEE-LENGTH TUNICS FOR MOST ACTIVITIES, AND MEN OF THE UPPER CLASSES WORE LONG TUNICSs, WITH HOSE AND MAN- TLES OR CLOAKS. WOMEN WORE LONG TUNICS OR GOWNS. A CLOSE 1620'S FIT TO THE BODY AND FULL SKIRTS. FASHION IN THE PERIOD IS CHARAC- TERIZED BY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE RUFF IN FAVOUR OF BROAD LACE OR LINEN COLLARS. WAISTLINES ROSE THROUGH THE PERIOD FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. OTHER NOTA- BLE FASHIONS INCLUDED FULL, SLASHED SLEEVES AND TALL OR BROAD HATS WITH BRIMS. FOR MEN, HOSE DISAPPEARED IN FAVOUR OF 1820'S BREECHES. DURING THE 1820S WOMEN'S STYLES TRANSITIONED AWAY FROM THE "EM- PIRE"/"REGENCY" STYLES AND RE-AD- OPTED ELEMENTS THAT HAD BEEN CHARACTERISTIC OF MOST OF THE 18TH CENTURY SUCH AS FULL SKIRTS AND CLEARLY VISIBLE CORSETING OF THE NATURAL WAIST. TROUSERS WERE WORN FOR SMART DAY WEAR, WHILE BREECHES CONTINUED IN USE 1920'S AT COURT AND IN THE COUNTRY. и IT WAS THE DECADE IN WHICH WOMEN FIRST ABANDONED THE MORE RE- STRICTING FASHIONS OF PAST YEARS AND BEGAN TO WEAR MORE COM- FORTABLE CLOTHES (SUCH AS SHORT SKIRTS OR TROUSERS). MEN ALSO ABANDONED HIGHLY FORMAL DAILY ATTIRE AND EVEN BEGAN TO WEAR ATHLETIC CLOTHING FOR THE FIRST TIME. 1970'S 1970S FASHION, WHICH BEGAN WITH PLATFORM SHOES WHICH APPEARED ON THE FASHION SCENE IN 1971 AND OFTEN HAD SOLES TWO TO FOUR INCHES THICK. WIDE-LEGGED, FLARED JEANS AND TROUSERS WERE ANOTHER FASHION MAINSTAY FOR BOTH MEN AND WOMEN THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE DECADE. PRESENT MANY MID AND LATE 2000S FASHIONS REMAIN POPULAR IN EUROPE, THE UNITED STATES, LATIN AMERICA, AUS- TRALASIA AND EAST ASIA, ESPECIAL- LY THE INDIE POP LOOK WHICH LARGELY DREW UPON 1960S MOD THE CLOTHING COMBINED WITH ELEMENTS OF 1970S GARAGE ROCK AND CON- TEMPORARY ALTERNATIVE FASHION. HOUSE IN TOWN www.thehouseintown.co.uk