Fashion History

Ms. Collishaw

HNC3O

The Earliest Fashions

Neanderthals wore feathers (Discovery News 2011)

American Natural History Museum

Earliest garments made from

•Softened skins

•Sewn together with sinews and bone needles

•Or laced grasses, bark and feathers

Ancent Egypt

Pharaoh Ahkenaton and wife Nefertiti Egyptian farmer wearing loincloth

•Egyptians developed linen

•Men – loincloth

•Women – long straight dresses

•Wide bead collars

•Slaves naked

Bead-net dress (Petrie Museum)

Greek Fashion

Kouros sculpture showing colours

Chlamys – Men’s cloak for travelers

Chiton for women

Himation – cloak for men or women

Roman FashionToga – formal wear for noble men

purple border = kings

Tunics – common clothing, worn under toga

Caligae – Soldier’s shoes

Stolla (dress) and Palla (shawl)

Qin Dynasty

Terracotta army – detailed fashion record

Emperors wore embroidered silk •Simple shape

•elaborate silk embroidery to mark beliefs and status

Women’s wedding dress

Europe in the Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages wedding

Late middle ages wedding

High Middle Ages

Renaissance Dress

King Henry VIII England

How is it different from medieval dress?

Seventeenth Century (1600-1700)

Eighteenth Century (1700-1800)

Neoclassical look

Early Century

Nineteenth Century (1800-1900)

Frock coat

Twentieth Century

1900-1920

The hobble skirt

The Gibson Girl 1920s

Flapper fashion

Sports and leisure wear

Twentieth Century continued

1930s

1940s

Twentieth Century cont’d

1950s1960s

Twentieth Century cont’d

1970s

1980s – Cast of Dynasty

Twentieth Century - end

1990s

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