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The 1920s are characterized by two distinct periods of fashion: in the early part of the decade, change was slower, and there was more reluctance to wear the new, revealing popular styles. From 1925, the public more passionately embraced the styles now typically associated with the Roaring Twenties.
Woman wearing fringe jacket and hat, United States, 1953. Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th century Wild West. It ranges from accurate historical reproductions of American frontier clothing, to the stylized garments popularized by Western film and television ...
1860s in Western fashion. Fashions of the 1860s include square paisley shawls folded on the diagonal and full skirts held out by crinolines. Auguste Toulmouche 's Reluctant Bride of 1866 wears white satin, and her friend tries on her bridal wreath of orange blossoms. 1860s fashion in European and European-influenced countries is characterized ...
1930–1945 in Western fashion. The most characteristic North American fashion trend from the 1930s to 1945 was attention at the shoulder, with butterfly sleeves and banjo sleeves, and exaggerated shoulder pads for both men and women by the 1940s. The period also saw the first widespread use of man-made fibers, especially rayon for dresses and ...
1830s in Western fashion. In the 1830s, men wore dark coats, light trousers, and dark cravats for daywear. Women's sleeves reached their ultimate width in the gigot sleeve. Here, the boys (on holiday in the mountains) wear buff-colored belted knee-length tunics with yokes and full sleeves over trousers. The girls wear white dresses with colored ...
Men wear top hats with formal morning dress or bowlers with lounge suits. Fashion in the period 1900–1909 in the Western world continued the severe, long and elegant lines of the late 1890s. Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's broad hats and full "Gibson Girl" hairstyles. A new, columnar silhouette introduced by the ...
Bonnet (headgear) Old woman in sunbonnet (c. 1930). Photograph by Doris Ulmann. A bonnet decorated with lace and tulle from the 1880s. Bonnet has been used as the name for a wide variety of headgear for both sexes—more often female—from the Middle Ages to the present. As with "hat" and "cap", it is impossible to generalize as to the styles ...
An Easter bonnet is any new or fancy hat worn by women as a Christian headcovering on Easter. [1] It represents the tail end of a tradition of wearing new clothes at Easter, [2] in harmony with the renewal of the year and the promise of spiritual renewal and redemption. As with the wearing of headcoverings by women during Christian prayer and ...