The greatest trend of post-war fashion has been the steady spread of informality. The fashionable woman from the Victorian period was well-heeled and in her 40s; after World War I, she was in her 20s or 30s, tangoing and taking her fashion from Hollywood movies. In the ’50s, teenagers were invented, and started to make [...]

While all this energy was being expended by the younger generation, the first years of the 20th century saw the fantastic heyday of style for the older woman. Curved by her corsets into the fashionable S-bend, she sailed through the day dripping lace from her ample bosom, and a train from her padded posterior.
She had [...]

Looking at the costumes of our forebears these days, it is quite hard to imagine that the female shape can have changed so a lot over the centuries. Of course it hasn’t, but the concept of beauty has. Each generation has chosen to enhance what it considers the most essential aspect of feminine beauty – [...]

Fashions have been revolutionized in the last 200 years. Exactly where once fashion was just for the rich, today everyone can follow trends at fairly reasonable costs – and millionaires and paupers alike wear jeans and T-shirts.
Within the early 19th century, the French, usually leaders within the fashion field, came up with a revolutionary concept [...]

Fibres are straightened and laid parallel by combing prior to being spun into a continuous yarn. Silk filaments are much simpler to convert into yarn as they need only the twisting together of several filaments. Two or more strands of yarn are then woven together on a loom to make cloth. Warp threads run lengthwise [...]

The textiles manufacturing industry has come a lengthy way since the initial basic linen clothes had been created by New Stone Age people. These days, textiles manufacturers are just as likely to be making tough liners for landfill rubbish tips as they’re colourful patterned fabrics for the fashion industry.
Textiles are created by weaving, knitting, felting [...]