1900s Fashion Changes

The Jazz culture inspired multiple dances, such as the Black Bottom and the ever-popular Charleston. These dances required lots of movement leading to a shift in women’s fashion. Women wore less undergarments, went without coresets, and designed dresses that allowed for more freedom of movement. In 1921, Coco Chanel introduced the “drop-waist” dress, which were worn with long strings of glass beads or pearls. By 1925 these dresses resembled the shifts that were worn under the dresses of the early 1900. Evening dress were made up of mesh material, sleeveless, low v-neckline or backless, and sometimes adorned with sequence. These new fashions were advertised in fashion magazines that made their appearance in the 20s, Vouge, The Queen, and the

Clothing has existed for many centuries and has evolved over time. At one time, clothes were made very simple; over time the stages of developing clothes has drastically changed. The design and style of clothes changed as well.

As Coco Chanel quotes: “Fashion is an architecture: It is a matter of proportion.” Fashion during the Harlem Renaissance and the roaring 20s define the culture of males, females, whites & blacks.

Marilyn Monroe once said “Women's cloths should be tight enough to show that you're a woman, but also show that you're a lady.” Seeing women in the 50’s, many of them looked up at famous or well known models or actors such as Marilyn Monroe. We see hats and sunglasses, start to be involved in their attire. Jewelry and makeup start to blend with the fashion, We also see the pencil and poofy dresses being worn. Women that work in formal places where high heels and pant suits to look professional. Today we see some girls pay hundred of dollars on dresses, and in the 50’s women would pay anywhere from 99 cents to fifty dollar dresses (1950’s Fashion). Although we have seen how fashion was for women and teenagers one of the biggest changes in fashion was for the

First of all, the amount of clothing in the United States that had been purchased from other countries has been increasing in great numbers. Most clothing in America was made in America until the 1970’s when clothing from outside countries started becoming more common. This happened because labor costs were much cheaper in other countries than in America, causing the products from those countries to also be much cheaper than those made in the United States and retailers were gaining better profits. The minimum wage in the United States is $7.26 per hour, while in China the average clothing factory worker earns $1.26 an hour and $0.52 in Cambodia. By 1990, of all the clothing sold in America, fifty percent were made in America- which has

Could you imagine wearing a ball gown and corset to dinner with your friends? In the 1800s, women wore extravagant dresses to parties. Differently, in the 1920s and 1960s, ladies dressed in loose, brightly colored short dresses. Nowadays, women wear tight, sheer clothing. How did women’s formal fashion go from hoop skirts and corsets to tight, revealing dresses?

Fashion in the United States Events occurred throughout the Roaring Twenties in the United States that changed the way people in the 1900s would view women forever. Women in the 1900s were restricted by clothes that they could wear. Advertisements displayed them as a maid. In the 1920s, while the men were fighting, women’s independence increased. This transformation caused a drastic change in their appearance.

By the 21st century, the advancement in technology has forever changed the way clothing is made. “The impact of CAD software on everyday clothing is becoming more prevalent as the software is linked to 3D printing technology.” This saying, clothing has come to be an easy thing to come by and still is advancing. “Machines for home printing are becoming more affordable… the ability to create customized clothing is becoming more of a reality as technology evolves.” As technology evolves, it will impact the way people shop for clothes and how their clothes are

Before the 1920s, clothing was very conservative. It was the end of the Victorian era and Edwardian era where there were tight fitting corsets as undergarments,

The 20th century saw an express change in the clothes Americans wear to work and those styles eventually trickled into casual and urban fashion. The 18 th and 19th century saw many workers wearing inadequate work clothes, resulting in many injuries and accidents especially for working children under 16.

Clothing today is seen as easily assessable and creative, but that was not always the case. We are lucky to live in such a modern world of clothing. Over the course of time, the development of clothing has changed drastically as well as the style.

Imagine you’re going back in time. Then, THUNK, you’re plopped down in a street. You look at newspaper and find you’re in 1903. Then, this happens again, and again, going into 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and all the other decades in the 20th century. You see flapper dresses, bell-bottom pants, suits, dresses and even crazier stuff! Finally, you plop down one last time, back in 2015. You saw how womens fashion changed many times, and in many ways in 20th century America.

Imagine you’re going back in time. Then, THUNK, you’re plopped down in a street. You look at newspaper and find you’re in 1903. Then, this happens again, and again, going into 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, and all the other decades in the 20th century. You see flapper dresses, bell-bottom pants, suits, dresses and even crazier stuff! Finally, you plop down one last time, back in 2015. You saw how womens fashion changed many times, and in many ways in 20th century America.

The constant churn of new trends means that consumers have grown dissatisfied with what they already have. Cline herself looked at her clothing collection and found she had 354 garments in her closet. “61 tops, 60 T-shirts, 15 cardigans and hooded sweatshirts, 21 skirts and 20 pairs of shoes, most of which I never wear.” Reading this made me examine my own wardrobe. I thought surely I don't own that much. Shockingly, I have 12 jackets, 23 bottoms, 71 shirts 19 dresses and 13 pairs of shoes. That’s a lot of clothing, yet I still find myself complaining that I have nothing to wear nearly every time I go out. This is an effect of the fashion industry teaching us that we need more clothing than we actually do. One of H&M’s major selling ploys is advertising that they have new stock every day. So naturally people go into the store to check it out. Then we notice the low price. With a deal like that we can't say no and we buy it. Just like that all of us have fed billions of dollars annually to stores that encourage waste. Mass produced clothing is generally poor quality due to manufacturers cutting corners to lower cost and raise profit. As a culture we need to relearn valuing quality over quantity if we want to see a change in the garment

A lot has changed and evolved in the history of fashion since the 1900s. As the century dawned, fashion was an exclusive enterprise, the pursuit of wealth. The average person in society settled for garments that were usually stitched at home. With time, however, networks of neighborhood tailors began to evolve into a retail history and the boom was followed by boutique selling.