/r/fashionhistory
A place for historical garments, past patterns, illustrations, demonstrations, perukes, petticoats, hoops, codpieces, houppelandes, hennins, restorations and recreations from long ago.
Fashion historians, costumers and enthusiasts are welcome to celebrate some good-old-fashioned fashion.
A place for historical garments, past patterns, illustrations, demonstrations, perukes, petticoats, hoops, codpieces, houppelandes, hennins, restorations and recreations from long ago.
Fashion historians, costumers and enthusiasts are welcome to celebrate some good-old-fashioned fashion.
Like this? Check out /r/vintagefashion, /r/TheatricalCostuming and /r/HistoricalCostuming !
Interested in history, outside of the clothes? Check out The History Network on Reddit.
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Summer Evening at Skagen by Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer, 1892. Skagens Museum.
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Dress, 1909. House Of Worth.
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Evening dress, c. 1907, by Paul Poiret. Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
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Les Modes (Paris) September 1927 "n'aime que moi" robe de style par Magdeleine des Hayes.
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"Hair Archeologist" recreates ancient coifs
The video is from AFP News Agency and is 1:35 long. (I like to know these things before I click.)
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Portuguese girl dressed in her traditional clothes, 1910. Other fin in Autochrome. Find particulary interesting that the walking stick is color combined with her dress
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Autochrome Lumiere shot of a Greek woman in the early XX century from the region of Nemea.
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What can you tell me about this man based on his attire?
Decade? I just got this painting and I would like to know more. I believe he is of the 18th century? Would also like to know about the garments themselves as much as is possible from a half body portrait. Thank you for your time.
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C. 1838 Baby Band
My historic site received a batch of donations, including this little beauty...a "baby band."
Basically infant "shapewear," though of course most infant and childhood stays, etc. were usually more for training good posture than anything else.
I'm impressed how well this has survived all things considered. It's all cotton, with cotton tape for the binding, shoulder straps, and ties. The cordage, what's peeking out anyway, also appears to be a standard cotton twine. Like a lot of corded stays for adults, it give support without impeding movement. The stitches were neat enough that I mistook them as machine, but it's all by hand!
Total length is just under 17" (without accounting for the ties), and a height of just under 4" along the front corded channels. Google tells me that is about the torso circumference of a 9 mo baby these days, to give an idea of size.
I'm hoping to make a cheeky little pattern to reproduce it! We have dolls (both baby and AG) in our traveling educational kits to teach about clothing and textiles of the period our site is from.
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Hi ! I found this belt, it's quite small 65 cm waist size, I would like to date it. Maybe a military belt? Have you ever seen anything similar?
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Dressing process of a bride and groom in Lagartera, Spain, documentary from 1968
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What time would these clothes be from?
I have this book im curious about what time It's from.
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1950 Sears Fall Winter Clothing Boys to Men
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[November 7th, 1924] "Do We Want Standardised Dress For Women?"
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Dinner dress by Lucile, 1916. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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Dovima wears a taffeta dress by Adrian ||| Vogue 1950
📸Photo by John Rawlings.
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What is this type of ‘coat’ called?
Source: https://a-closet-of-errors.com/2017/01/23/reinterpreting-marchesa-luisa-casati/
Hi, I am an art student who normally doesn’t do work related to fashion. I’m hoping to recreate something similar to this type of coat but I am having a hard time researching the garment without knowing it’s name
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