Fashion history 1890 1910s

Fashion History 1890-1910’s Fashion trends repeat every 20 – 30 years 1890’s Victorian Era Cultural Influences of 1800’s • Civil War. • Industrial Revolution. • Invention of the Power Loom & Cotton Gin. • Retail department stores, Mail order catalogs. • Levi Strauss introduces denim work pants. • Men adopt business suits.

Fashion History

1890-1910’s

Fashion trends repeat every

20 – 30 years

Victorian Era

Cultural Influences of 1800’s

• Civil War.

• Industrial Revolution.

• Invention of the Power Loom & Cotton Gin.

• Retail department stores, Mail order catalogs.

• Levi Strauss introduces denim work pants.

• Men adopt business suits.

Bustle is a type of framework

used to expand the fullness or

support the drapery of the back

of a woman's dress, occurring

predominantly between the

mid- to late 1800s.

The bustle which was

popularized during the

1870’s stayed popular

through the 1890’s but was

slowly demished to just a

pad.

1872, 1875 & 1876

1884, 1886 & 1889

'The New Woman' who was competitive, sporty and emancipated as well as beautiful Her clothes were fashionable in both America and Britain and set a fashion for skirts worn with embroidered blouses Another Gibson look was a shirt collar worn with either a tie, floppy artist bow, tie neck cravat with

stick pin bar brooch or crosscut ruffle jabot

The Gibson Girl

The Ideal American Woman

Stayed popular up to 1920’s

Corsets of 1890

A corset is a garment that

shapes the torso according

to the fashionable silhouette

of the day It has been used

for cinching the waist and

supporting the breasts

Corsets of the 1890’s created

an exaggerated hourglass

shape but as corsets

remained popular in the

early 1900’s the shape

created became more

S-bend

Corsets

Exaggerated Hourglass

Silhouette

Industrial Revolution Era.

• Automobiles.

• Women’s rights.

• Women go to War & Work

• Modern Fashion Shows begin.

• Art, ballet & film impact fashion.

• War time requires more practical clothing.

Influences of 1900’s – 1910’s

Duster Coat

Women wore dust coats to protect

clothing while riding in the new automobile.

Shirtwaist

Leg O Mutton Sleeves

S Curve Body Shape

Fashions of 1910

WWI Era

Hobble Skirt

A long skirt very narrow below the knees, worn between 1910 and 1914

• Bloomers were baggy underpants for women, usually made of cotton, which gathered at the waist and below at the knees

• Named for by American women's rights activist Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894)

• Bloomer wanted women to wear clothing that promoted freedom of movement, so she appeared in public in knee-length, loose-fitting pants

• During her lifetime, most people made fun of Bloomer's progressive

fashion statement

• The wearing of bloomers was influenced by the invention of bicycle

Wide at the shoulders and narrow at the feet.

The Elongated Inverted Triangle

Silhouette