Fashion through the Ages Part 4

20 th Century Influences Women working in fashion = slacks Automobile on fashion = dust coats, hats w/ scarves

Boating jacket –forerunner of blazer Ulster – coat with a detachable cape

Hobble skirt – tight skirt and difficult to walk in

Gibson Girl – Age of Innocence Appeared in the 1890s, the ideal of attractiveness Had a corset Neck thin with hair piled on top of her head with curls falling down Usually upper class, found cycling through the park

Paul Poiret Replaced corsets Made hobble and trotter skirts Made perfume line

Rats – put in hair of women to add volume/height/etc.

The 1920s…And All That Jazz! Flapper – short hair short skirt

Cloche – hat design, head hugging Marcel – created wave in women’s hair using hot curling tongs

Knickerbockers – trousers that are baggier, wider at knees Oxford Bags – baggy cut trousers

And then there’s

COCO Popularized women’s clothing, casual wear Worked with Paul Poiret Considered the greatest designer Created the Little Black Dress

1930’s art deco – long, slender and straight Rule of thumb: hemlines drop when the stock market drops, hemlines rise with the stock market

Eisenhower jacket – for women, wide shoulder Military look – common in 1940s

Veronica Lake – movie star, epitomized peekaboo hairstyle Dior – post war look, hemlines dropped, returned to corsets

Stilleto heel – high spiked heel Poodle skirts – wide skirt, triangle shaped, famous in the 1950s

Blue jeans – men and women wore in the 1950s

THE BEATLES Long hair, suits, girl crazy

Hippies – long hair, wide jeans, bright colors

The majority of the 60s – bright colors, short skirts, tight pants, pink make-up for women

Annie Hall – layered look, female suits

1970s Saturday Night Fever – disco, flared pants, polyester

1980s Bright colors, baggy or very tight, spandex, HAIRSPRAY, faux gold jewelry