LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

FASHION THROUGH THE

AGES

Laver, James. (1966), 45.Laver, James. (1966) Dress: how and why fashions in men's and women's clothes have changed during the past few hundred years. London : John Murray, 43.

Ashelford, Jane. (1988) Dress in the Age of Elizabeth I. London : Batsford, 41.

VÊTEMENTS (CLOTHING)

Laver, James. (1966), 8-9.

In the fifteen hundred years the essential lines of costume are hardly changed. Both Greek woman and the early medieval king wear what is in effect a tunic and a cloak.

Up to the end of the Middle Ages, differences of clothes are by class and country rather than time.

vêtements vêtements

Two examples of clothes in which it is obviously impossible to engage in any active pursuit.Laver, James. Dress. (1966) 21, 26.

FASHION MADE ITS OWN

English dress was indebted to Spain for its shape, but the decoration and exaggeration of certain features was unique to England.

Under Elizabeth’s influence men’s dress lost the assertive shape it had acquired in her father’s reign and, is it gradually became more dandified.

Men’s dress at the time of Queen Elizabeth’s accession in 1558 was generally restrained an dignified, epitomized by rich, dark colours set off

at neck and wrists by white frills, enlivened by gold embroidery…the clothes followed the lines of the body fairly closely, and apart from the

shape of the trunk hose, with little exaggeration of any one feature.

ELIZABETHAN DRESS

Ashelford, Jane. (1988) 8, 12 41, 43 50, 66, 112. .

Women not only used to be called the weaker sex, but it was actually believed that they were physically weaker. They were dressed for warmth and protected from the weather. If our ancestors could see the costumes worn by the average girl of today they would be terrified by their temerity. Crawford, M.D.C. (1952), 19.

WOMEN OBSESSED WITH EXTREMENESS

THE EARLY TO MID 20TH CENTURY

No period of fashion has shown more rapid changes of silhouette than the last 50 years,

during which the changes were

deliberately created by the fashion

industries seeking seasonable markets for their creations

Crawford, M. D. C. (1952), 24-25.

SOCKS WITH SHORT: DO’S AND DO NOT’S

Flusser, Alan J. (2002) Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion New York : HarperCollins, 182.

Interested in seeing original costume sketches and fabric samples from the 50 years of

theater history. Then check out the Motley Collection, 1932-

1976, currently located in the Rare Book and Manuscript

Library, available upon request.

REFERECENESAshelford, Jane. Dress in the Age of Elizabeth I. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1988.

ACES Funk 391.00942 As35d

Crawford, M.D.C. and Elizabeth G. Crawford. The History of Lingerie in Pictures. New York:

Fairchild Publications, Inc., 1952. ACES Funk 646.4 C85hi

Flusser, Alan. Dressing the Man: Mastering the Art of Permanent Fashion. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002.

ACES Funk Q. 391.1 F675d

Laver, James. Dress. London: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1966.ACES Funk 391 L38d 1966

Simple, Chic. Women’s Wardrobe. New York: Alfred A. Knoff, 1995.ACES Funk 646.34 Ur6w

Ed. Kyoto Kimino Gakuin. Trans. Yukiko Shima. A Step to Kimono and Kumihimo. California: Shumposha Photo Printing Co., LTD., 1979.

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