100 Years of Fashion

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100 Years ofFashion
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This presentation will provide a visual of the
eras described in the first paragraph, so while
reading about these eras and their evolution to
create fashion freedom, you will have some idea
of what the clothes look like!
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The Victorian Era
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• Dresses were the social standard for women
• Dresses had a conservative cut
• Corsets were always worn
• Crinolines were used
• Dresses generally had many frills and ruffles
• Dresses were always long

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The Roaring Twenties
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• Women liberated themselves by cutting their hair
  and no longer wearing Victorian clothing
• Hemlines were shortened dramatically
• Corsets and crinolines were abandoned
• Dresses were flowing and comfortable

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• Black became a common color in clothing it was
  no longer used solely for mourning purposes
• Social standards for clothing werent as tight
• The flapper, with her bobbed hair and short
  skirts, became a 20s style icon

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The 1940s and 1950s
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• Because of rationing, womens clothes had to have
  less fabric during World War II
• This led to short, skirts jackets
• Sheath dresses replaced flowing ones
• Women rarely wore pants during these decades it
  was looked upon as odd

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The 1960s
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• The shorter skirts from the 1940s and 1950s
  stayed
• Clothes came in brighter colors
• In 1966, Mary Quant came up with the idea of the
  miniskirt
• Pants become commonplace for women
• The mod and hippie subcultures emerged
• Twiggy become a fashion icon

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Twiggy
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The 1980s
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• 1980s fashion tended to be rebellious, colorful,
  and crazy
• People used fashion to express themselves
• Clothes often did not match
• No conservative fashion here!
• Leggings, legwarmers, and anything brightly
  colored was in style
• Lots of glitz!

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The 1990s
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• 1990s fashion was more subtle than 1980s fashion
• It was more minimal (not as much glitz)
• Oversized t-shirts and sweatshirts, overalls,
  wind pants, straight-leg jeans, and baggy jeans
  were popular

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Modern Fashion
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• Uggs, layering, printed clothes, leggings,
  Bermuda shorts, and ripped jeans are popular
• It has components from many decades leggings
  from the 1980s, Bermuda shorts from the 1960s,
  and printed clothes from the 1960s
• Green fashion (clothes made from organic
  materials) has also seen an emergence

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See how much fashion has changed the last 100
years? It makes you wonder how much it will
change in the next 100 years
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All pictures in this slide show came from the
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