What is Fashion? Give a short definition of fashion in your

own words after you have looked the whole presentation.Include a couple of examples.

Go through different historical periods of fashion and have in mind:

Social changes

Culture influence

Roles

Class Status

Mass Production and New Textile Technology

Romantic Era 1825-1845

Ornamental hair comb Handbags and purses

Hair styles and Hat sketches 1800-1905

First World War Era

La Belle Epoque

Fashion of 1920 - 1930

Tango and Jazz (1930)

Shoes (1920-1930)

Men 1945-1950

Fashionable wool crepe dress 1940

1942

Fashion of 1940-1960

1949 50’s skirts

40’s shoe

50’s hat

1955-1960

Teenagers 1951The revolution of jeans and Elvis Presley style

Boots of 60’s

The length of a typical late sixties mini skirt

Dresses of 1967 with cutaway armholes

1970-1980

Today

A fashion is approved by others.  It is copied because of competition.  It is replaced as it becomes commonplace and has ceased to fulfill its function of being distinctive.

Pauline Weston Thomas