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In “The Coming of Islam and Its Influence on Dress” from Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: Central and Southwest Asia (2010), Gillian Vogelsland Eastwood defined a fez as:| Fashion History Timeline
In “The Coming of Islam and Its Influence on Dress” from Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: Central and Southwest Asia (2010), Gillian Vogelsland Eastwood defined a fez as:| Fashion History Timeline
This dinner dress was created by English fashion designer Charles Frederick Worth in 1883. Worth, often referred to as the father of haute couture, had a large influence over Parisian fashions in the late 19th century. His ornately decorated gowns were sought after by many women.| Fashion History Timeline
To date, these fragments of dress are the only surviving testimonies of elite feminine garments in the Late Byzantine Empire. They offer a remarkable insight into what might have been the fashion habit in Mystras (Greece) and reflect the prestigious and multicultural civilization of Byzantium during the 15th century.| Fashion History Timeline
Like so many cherished national traditions, the fez owed its popularity to the efforts of a nineteenth-century reformer. Sultan Mahmud II was one of a series of modernising Ottoman rulers who worked to end the stagnation into which their state had slumped in the eighteenth century. Conflicts with foreign powers had steadily diminished imperial territory, while populations at the periphery became increasingly difficult to govern. Once the terror of the European powers, the Ottomans’ star app...| Fashion History Timeline
This silhouette was popular in 1869, as a writer in Peterson’s Magazine wrote under “Fashions for June”:| Fashion History Timeline
In the Order and Border exhibition (2010-11) at the Seattle Art Museum, there was a striking kimono on display from the 19th century (Meiji period, 1868-1912) which had been printed using the katazome technique (Fig. 1).| Fashion History Timeline
André Derain (1880-1954, Fig. 1) was born in Chatou, a small town in the Île-de-France region outside of Paris (Diehl 8; Lee, 1990, 11-13). His father, a successful pâtissier and municipal councilor, was a small bourgeois who hoped to increase his son’s success (Werner 200). Despite Derain’s early interest in an artistic career, his father pressured him to become an officer or an engineer (Sutton 6; Lee 11).| Fashion History Timeline
The shape of corsets is undergoing a radical change,” an unnamed Vogue author wrote in “Piazza Talk” for readers in July 1896.| Fashion History Timeline
An American painter and illustrator, John White Alexander (Fig. 1) began his career in New York in 1875 working for Harper’s Weekly. In 1877, Alexander moved to Paris for formal art training. From there he traveled to Bavaria, Italy, and back to New York. By 1881, he was on his way to becoming a successful painter, and by 1893, both his American and European reputations were flourishing. From his early landscapes and genre scenes to his later psychological portrait studies of women, Alexand...| Fashion History Timeline
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (Fig. 1) was a French painter born in 1749. She started her training in 1763 under miniature painter François-Elie Vincent and also studied pastels under Maurice-Quentin de La Tour from 1769-1774. She eventually opened up her own studio, where she taught at least nine other female artists. Labille-Guiard was the official painter for the daughters of Louis XV, the Mesdames de France, though she later leaned towards painting revolutionary leaders like Maximilien Robes...| Fashion History Timeline
This remarkable painting of a young woman drawing appears in miniature in an illustration depicting the Paris Salon of 1801, where it was submitted and placed on display (Fig. 1). The painting itself entered the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection in 1917 and until 1951 was displayed as a work of the renowned Revolutionary artist Jacques-Louis David (Sterling 121). It was not until 1996 that the painting was attributed to Marie Denise Villers instead.| Fashion History Timeline
Rudi Gernreich was an avant-garde designer whose works questioned the status quo of the fashion industry and often reflected his own political beliefs (Low 1/ Fig. 1). Born in 1922 in Vienna, Gernreich grew up within a non-religious Jewish middle-class family. Following his father’s death, Gernreich was raised mainly by his mother and aunt who ran a fashion salon in which she made copies of popular French designs (Felderer). Due to anti-Semitic violence and the rapidly approaching Nazi occu...| Fashion History Timeline
1983 featured a flashback to the 1940s with menswear influences like strong shoulder pads and oversized coats. The overall look of the year is accentuated by the power belt that minimizes the waist and emphasizes the hips. In summary, volume fashion was a hit.| Fashion History Timeline
Summer, sometimes referred to as A Portrait, was created in 1876 by French painter and printmaker James Tissot (Fig. 1). Tissot was born on October 15, 1836 in Nantes, France into a family of textile merchants. Twenty years later, around 1856, Tissot moved to Paris to study under Louis Lamothe and Hippolyte Flandrin. In 1859, he made his debut at the Paris Salon. He would continue to exhibit at the Salon until his move to London in 1871. Tissot lived in London where he gained fame and regular...| Fashion History Timeline
Doran H. Ross in the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: Africa (2010) in an article on Ghana explores in detail how adinkra is created (Figs. 1-2), and why it is worn:| Fashion History Timeline
The “God Save the Queen” t-shirt was created by Westwood and McLaren in 1977, the same year that Queen Elizabeth II would celebrate her Silver Jubilee, marking twenty-five years of her reign as the Queen of England. In the summer of 1977, various royal pageants and celebrations were set to take place to commemorate this occasion. In the Punk world, the summer of 1977 became known as “the Summer of Hate” (Westwood and Kelly 206). This garment reflects the style of the Punk subculture i...| Fashion History Timeline
This day dress, designed in 1855, was produced with a combination of silk and wool fabrics. The silhouette can be described as a large, bell-shaped skirt, perhaps supported at the time by a crinoline cage, but more likely by a series of stiffened petticoats. The outspread skirt is contrasted with a loosely fit, pleated bodice, tied at the waist with a ribbon to accentuate the fullness of the garment’s lower half. The fabric is printed with vibrant blue floral, hatching and other small patte...| Fashion History Timeline
The Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion (2005) offers a brief definition of the dashiki and its etymology:| Fashion History Timeline
In 1947, Christian Dior established his own maison de la couture with a collection that contributed to the revival of haute couture in France after World War II. Katie Somerville quotes Dior in The House of Dior: Seventy Years of Haute Couture (2017):| Fashion History Timeline
Despite the limited visibility of the garments, the figures depicted in Henry Lerolle’s The Organ Rehearsal can be seen as a fashionable group of churchgoers to 1885 standards — complete with plumed hats, bustled skirts, and simple dark male suiting.| Fashion History Timeline
This French dress, designed in the 1880s, follows the different trends at this time. The first reason that this gown was fashionable was the silhouette. The slim-fitting curaiss bodice paired with a bustle that leads into a train was very chic during the early 1880s and can be seen in multiple fashion plates and paintings.| Fashion History Timeline
In The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Fashion (2014), Phyllis G. Tortora offers a definition of the banyan:| Fashion History Timeline
Mary Cassatt was an American artist born in 1844. She studied painting in France and Italy, and eventually made Paris her permanent home in 1874. Cassatt was a member of the Impressionists and was close friends with Edgar Degas (Weinberg). She is known for frequently painting mothers and their children, and her works allow the viewer to see an intimate glimpse into women’s lives in the late Victorian era (Mowll Mathews).| Fashion History Timeline
