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A hub for fashion research with hundreds of essays on specific artworks, garments and films, the Fashion History Timeline equips students and researchers with essential facts, vocabulary, models of analysis, and links to digitized primary & secondary sources.
- Fashion Eras 1800-2000: Clothing Style Names and Design Era Terminology
- 1800-1837 Fashion Eras
- 1837-1913 Fashion Eras
- 1913-1947 Fashion Era History Timeline
- 1947-1970 Fashion Era History Timeline
- 1970-1985 Fashion Era History Timeline
- 1985-2000 Fashion Eras History
We'll be discussing fashion eras from the following time periods: 1. 1800-1837 2. 1837-1913 3. 1913-1947 4. 1947-1970 5. 1970-1985 6. 1985-2000 7. 2000-Beyond 8. Subcultural Styles Read on for a timeline of fashion eras that will familiarize you with style names, history, and origins.
Late Georgian Era
Although commonly referred to as the Regency period, the years between 1800 and 1837 are actually considered a part of the Georgian era. During this time, King George III suffered from insanity from 1811 until his death in 1820. His son, who was already serving as Regent, ascended to the throne as King George IV and reigned from 1820 to 1830. He was succeeded by his brother, William IV. However, after his death in 1837, the throne was then taken by Queen Victoria. See Regency Taste.
Regency Era
Regency Fashion, which was prevalent during the period from 1800 to 1820, drew its inspiration from classical principles and the latest fashion trends of the time. This style of dress was characterized by elaborate ornamentation and intricate details, reflecting the elegance and sophistication of the era.
Classical Greek Dress
From 1800 to 1803, the prevailing style of dress was classical, featuring ornaments and decorations that were heavily inspired by Greek designs. This included the use of Greek key borders, which were a popular element in clothing during this time period.
Due to its lengthy 64-year duration, the Victorian era cannot be simply defined by the length of one monarch's reign. Instead, in terms of fashion history, the era needs to be subdivided into smaller time periods, each with its own unique characteristics and influences. This allows for a more nuanced understanding of the evolution of fashion during...
Oriental Era
Orientalism has appeared in and out of fashion history several times, but it is particularly associated with the movement in a dress inspired by artist Léon Bakst the customer and set designer of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in 1909. The dress designers Paul Poiretand Paquin were very influenced by the ballet and separately created garments with oriental influences. Poiret’s designs of 1910-1911 were thought scandalous.
First World War Era
This is the era between 1914 and 1918.It is a period of great change internationally in Europe in particular. It is a time of female emancipation when skirts were first shortened to show calves and more practical clothing emerged as women did war work.
The 1920s: Flappers and Bright Young Things
A flapperwas initially a derogatory term but soon was used to describe any young woman of the mid-1920s who wore cloche hats, bobbed her hair, and favored shorter skirts whilst she shimmied the night away dancing the Charleston. The same mixed partying set was sometimes called Bright Young Things.
The New Look Era
After Dior launched his new fashion designs in 1947 Life magazine dubbed it ‘The New Look’. Although dated from the 1940s, it is quite a separate look from the austere military-influenced garments of wartime. The New Look remained fashionable for about 10 years well into the late 1950s. Christian Dior would have been 100 in 2005.
Hollywood Glamour Girls
Hollywood Glamour is a style associated with about 30 years of film from the early 1930s to the late 1950s when the great female stars and studio starlets set the trend in hair, makeup, and clothes in the thirties and 1940s. In the 1950s color films helped fuel the fascination of filmgoers. The stars lived and breathed glamour on and off set. After World War II, Hollywood glamour helped define the groomed consistently glamorous look of the 1950s. It is a look that few film stars still manage...
Era of Ready to Wear – Prêt-à-Porter
Mass production improved so much between 1945 and 2000 that the period ever since has been one primarily ofready-to-wear rather than Haute Couture. In France ready to wear is known as Prêt-à-Porter.
Disco Fever Mid-1970s
Disco clotheswere never for work, but for a weekend of fun, posing, and dancing. Trousers that flared, figure-hugging shaped sharply cut jackets in pastel colors that glowed in the disco light were elevated to new heights by platform shoes. Silver and shimmering Lycra, sequin boob tubes, and stretch catsuits sum up an era that was set alight by the film ‘Saturday Night Fever’ and the Bee Gees singers.
New Romantics Era 1980s
The New Romanticschose themes from Hollywood, fiction, or history and then adapted it to make a personal look. The look was dramatic, flamboyant, colorful, and very dressed up with great attention paid to detail. The wearers appeared to have made an effort to look sartorially interesting using frills and fabrics associated with historical periods. A watered down pretty New Romantic look was worn by Diana the Princess of Walesin her early years and she became a fashion leader. The feminine loo...
Power Dressing and Yuppies Era 1980s
In the late 1970s, fashion designers showed garments with oversized shoulders and oversized clothes on slender women. John Molloy’s ‘Dress For Successbook advised women to dress for success by wearing suits. He advised women to abandon cardigans at all costs, which he maintained was a secretarial look. The recently updated book is now a huge success again. The then UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher seen on TV news daily, echoed these power dressingideas in her structured suits, even taking...
Grunge
Grunge was based on fashion started by a youth cult in the Pacific North West region of America in the early 1990s. The key to the look was that nothing matched, nothing was coordinated and an item was preferable if old and worn. The point was to look tousled, uncombed and unkempt as if not too much effort had been made. Many consumers thought it pointless. Actresses like Julia Roberts who adopted the look were heavily criticized for their lack of glamour. Only those under 21 could get away w...
Deconstructionism
Deconstructionism questions the rules and breaks conventions in fashion. It includes putting seams and zips on the outside of a garment showing the inner construction workings of tailoring that in the past were the hidden features. It recycles old fashion and makes the undesirable part of the dress such as a laddered stocking a desirable feature. Hussein Chalayan, Martin Margiela and Comme des Garçons are all deconstructionists, but Zandra Rhodes first did this 25 years ago when she put huge...
Minimalism
Minimalism describes pared-down clothes in neutral tones in clean and sculptural shapes Quality fabrics in solid neutrals, with minimal detailing were first seen as a reaction to the glitz and glamour of 1980s styles. It became more popular in the 1990s. It is functional, urban subdued understated clothing which is never out of date.
6 de dic. de 2022 · The majority of histories of American fashion start in the early 1600s, when French colonists adopted attire from Europe, the continent of their birth. These tales, however, leave out the history and downplay the profound influence Native American dress had on later generations of designers.
24 de sept. de 2015 · September 24, 2015. 11 -min read. Updated: 9 July 2020. The Roaring 20s. The end of World War I brought a new sense of freedom and independence to women in the United States. It was during this decade that the “flapper” emerged, a new type of young American woman whose clothing screamed modernity.
31 de jul. de 2017 · Meticulously compiled using a number of historic fashion plates, this timeline showcases the many shifts in styles that occurred in women's fashion over the course of nearly 200 years. The chronological presentation begins in the year 1784, when frilly, floor-length hoop skirts were all the rage.
11 de may. de 2018 · 1920 – The 19th Amendment to the US Constitution gives women the right to vote. Some believe that the women’s rights movement affected fashion, promoting androgynous figures and the death of the corset. The Prohibition Era begins in the US but is largely ignored by fashionable young men and women of the time.
26 de jun. de 2022 · The truth is fashion is something that has been around for a very long time. While our fashion trends right now are very different from what used to be popular in the 1940s, 1950s, and beyond, there is a lot of fashion history that repeats itself over and over again.
