Tag: history of fashion

• Historical Fashion: Georgian Men’s Hairstyles

  

  One of my most popular posts on Just History Posts is my post about Georgian women’s hairstyles. They certainly were most fantastical creations, towering above the wearer and imbued with powder, colour, feathers, ribbons, and more. But many do not realise that the men of the Georgian period also indulged in fancy wigs – if…

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  January 17, 2020

  Historical Fashion

  eighteenth century, eighteenth century england, English History, fashion, fashion history, Georgian, Georgian fashion, Georgian Men, Hairstyles, history, history of fashion

• Fashion as Liberation: Edwardian Women’s Hatpins

  

  “No man, however courageous he may be, likes to face a resolute woman with a hatpin in her hand.” When you think of fashion, you probably think of a variety of things. Superfluous trends, silly styles, strange catwalk concoctions. However, whilst fashion has been ridiculed for centuries, over many periods of history fashion has been…

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  March 7, 2018

  Historical Fashion, Women’s History

  Edwardian, Edwardian fashion, fashion, fashion history, Hatpin, history, history of fashion, Self Defence, Suffrage, Women, Women’s History

• Historical Fashion: Georgian Women’s Hairstyles

  

  I recently tweeted the following picture, showing a fashion plate from France, 1778, showing a huge elaborate hairstyle that was often popular with French and English women of this time period. These hairstyles are very evocative of the period, and significantly different from many other time periods, so I thought I would explore what types…

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  September 11, 2017

  Historical Fashion

  eighteenth century, eighteenth century england, English History, fashion, fashion history, Georgian, Georgian fashion, history, history of fashion, Marie Antoinette