Year by year images of women’s fashions, 1949-1980, with 4 frames per year – more or less arbitrary selection- pics not in any chronological order within each year. The music is ‘Aphrodite’ by Alessandro Carabelli (details at All About Jazz website) WARNING! 1/Ideally, a slide show like this should be put together by someone with some credentials in, or a wide knowledge of, fashion history (rather than a mild interest)- but I did it anyway. I like the way the images convey the passing of years and decades. 2/ To the best of my knowledge (!) all images were published in the year shown – except that of the hippie girl in 1968b, which I believe is a later watercolour rendition of a pic of someone who attended a concert in Hyde Park, London, in that year. Ive had to try and judge which sources to trust for dates of post 1960 pattern illustrations and several individual scans. 3/Images should be seen as picked at random from each year and jumbled up within a year. The 4 frames per year do not represent any chronological order. Because fashion seasons begin in spring and autumn it is possible that things like Year A (all Dec pics) Year B (all Jan pics) Year C (all Dec pics) (meaning situations where 2 consecutive years containing one season are followed by 3 seasons being skipped before the images for the next year) could happen but blind chance makes it unlikely. Besides the hippie girl in 1968b, there are 2 other non-contemporary images: the mannequins from the Bath costume …
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Fashion changes, that’s the *essence* of fashion. (Well, nowadays it mostly gets recycled but you know…) Anyway, some people really should stop pandering for bygone eras and get with the times! I’m certainly not willing to start wearing a corset to achieve that hourglass shape body. And can you imagine wearing skirts and dresses when it gets freezing, like well belove zero?? Not to mention how much more expensive clothes made of huge amount of fabric would be. Plus, women need their mobility!
@SkyLightningBolt
So are women ment to wear ball gowns from the 1800s?
You sound like ur saying ‘oh the poor men have to oogle the slutty looking girls!’
Guys don’t have to oogle us!!!
x
@rosieparez Very true … what happened was the skirts got to short. Too short for girdles and stockings … too short for those lacy slips. There was something so soft and feminine about women and girls hiding their lacy underpinnings under skirts and dresses back then.
I love video,I wanna wear a dress every day !
I’d love to see one from `80 till the present. How it deteriorates even MORE! lol.
We went from classy gloves and hats to paying hundreds of dollars for RIPPED up denim pants, and sneakers! Has it not occurred to anyone how the public has been played for suckers and will buy any piece of trash if it’s “sold” to us correctly?
Kitűnő ! Excellent !
Thank you very much !
Greetings from Hungary
True
Sadly women are nothing but meat these days for men to oogle at.
So the men designers slowly made clothes with less cloth as time went by so men can oogle some more.
Just look at what young teenage girls are wearing today..they look more like hookers thanks to designers who set the fashion trends.
Fashion has set women rights back 100 years because women are looked at more like a slab of meat more today than ever.
Dress with class or dress like a slut !
I love both the videos (1795 – 1948 and 1949 – 1980) and I think it’s interesting to see how trends come and go constantly.
Like at the beginning of the 1795 video you see more simple fitting outfits on the women before they become extravagent and that is a recurring theme that could even be seen in the 1910′s and 1920′s.
I have a jacket that my grandma wore in the 70′s and no one can tell unless they ask me where I got it from. Keep everything because it may come back in style!
5:57 You used a picture of Gia Carangi
Those styles came back cause they’re great.
Wow notice a big increase in women wearing pants from 1968 onwards?
great work!
thank you
My mom grew up in the 50s and she remembers when her mother used to wear those dresses around the house. They were so cute.
In my opinion once the late 60′s hit that was the end of the romantic classy era…..after that it seemed to be very blah and lack luster for me…..hell just down right ugly. I think the fashion from the 70s and 80s were the worst yet we have managed to bring back those styles….God only knows why……Bring back the 50s….I like class and saphistication
Wonderful videos (1795-1948 and 1949-1980)!!!
Please,upload a video about the 1981-2009 period….that,s excitement!!
Thanks!!
i love this vid i think grls now r tryin 2 dress like they did in da 40′s thats y lots of grls r wearin theyr dresses like a shirt n a scirt n a belt over the shirt yup xD
Yep I think i like the fifties evening gowns!
Than You!
I love this video and wondered if you coul send me the list of sites you used via youtube message. Thank you
The Trapeze dress (1958b – centre) and the ‘Mondrian’ shift dress (1965b – far right) are his.
Yves Saint Laurent,1936-2008
a great French fashion designer…..
a great video, a journey to the past! bravo!
a great video, a journey to the past! bravo!!
I’m not sure if I’ll go on to 2010 – depends how easy it is to find enough material – esp mail order catalogue stuff. I get the impression that regular periodicals with updated fashion plates didn’t exist until the 1790s and that there was also much more variation from country to country before then so that it may be a bit too difficult or pointless to go back to the 16thC on a year by year basis.
Very interesting. Can’t wait for 1981-2009/2010. It should be very interesting to watch the evolution of fashion from the 1790s to today. Ever thought of going earlier than 1795, though? maybe the 1590s?