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Today, the evening gown comes in different silhouettes and even lengths, but the full-skirted ball gown remains the pinnacle of formality. Evening gowns are worn at various semi-formal black-tie (and sometimes white tie ) functions, including formal dinners, opera and theater premieres, formal dances, evening wedding receptions, and charity balls.
Liu Wen, a supermodel, walking the catwalk as she models fashions by designer Diane von Fürstenberg at New York Fashion Week in 2013. A fashion show is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase their upcoming line of clothing and/or accessories during a fashion week. Fashion shows debut every season, particularly the spring/summer and ...
Fashion in fourteenth-century Europe was marked by the beginning of a period of experimentation with different forms of clothing. Costume historian James Laver suggests that the mid-14th century marks the emergence of recognizable " fashion " in clothing, [ 1 ] in which Fernand Braudel concurs. [ 2 ]
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Survey of historic costume: A history of Western dress (2nd ed.). New York: Fairchild Publications. ISBN 1-56367-003-8. Van Buren, Anne H. Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands, 1325–1515. New York: Morgan Library & Museum, 2011. ISBN 978-1-9048-3290-4
One of the best things about going to Europe is getting to dress the part — we’re talking trouser pants, summery sandals, chic tops and flowy dresses, of course! The ladies over there know how ...
European courts, such as Tudor court and the wives of Henry VIII, were influential in European fashion. [17] From the 1540s, the bodices of dresses were stiffened, flattening the wearer's chest, and skirts were shaped with a Spanish farthingale. [18] The resulting silhouette resembled two triangles. [18] Wheel farthingale silhouette