Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1900s
For most of the first decade of the 20th century, fashion mainly showed seasonal modifications rather than any fundamental changes. However, as the century unfolded, the co…
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Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1910s
The 1910s were a period of dramatic change in fashion. Though many trends had their roots in fashions of the previous decade, World War I cemented the move towards more pra…
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Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1920s
Developments in fashion following WWI were greatly influenced by the changing attitudes of women. Younger women were empowered by their wartime independence and deliberatel…
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Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1930s
Following the crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, new, more down-to-earth attitudes forced on the world offered great scope for a new simplicity, as encapsulated by Coc…
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Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1940s
World War II had a profound effect on fashion and it became regulated and framed by government decrees. However, despite these strict regulations and the violent upheavals …
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Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1950s
Often associated with the rise of youthful, ready-to-wear fashions, the '50s were nevertheless a prolific and successful decade for the fashion 'establishment' as embodied …
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Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1960s
The 'Swinging Sixties' saw the emergence of a new youth market as teenagers rebelled against the aesthetics and values of their parents' generation and established their ow…
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Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1970s
The 1970s were a pioneering decade, and saw the evolution of fashion into a proclamation of individuality. Seen as the reflection of the taste of the wearer, one of the con…
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Fashion Drawing & Illustration: 1980s
The increasing profile of women in the work place required a new fashion aesthetic, and the decade witnessed the emergence of 'Power Dressing'. The period also saw the disp…
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Patterns of Fashion 2: c1860 - 1940
One of three volumes of Patterns of Fashions written and illustrated by Janet Arnold that together form an indispensable core collection for any costu…
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EVENING EVENT: For those working in fashion and associated industries, is it possible to keep a healthy relationship to oneself in a 'superficial' industry?
