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By the mid-1820s, men's fashion plates show a shapely ideal silhouette with broad shoulders emphasized with puffs at the sleevehead, a narrow waist, and very curvy hips. A corset was required to achieve the tiny waistline shown in fashion plates. Already de rigueur in the wardrobes of military officers, men of all middle and upper classes began ...
American fashion trends emulated French dress, but in a toned-down manner, with shawls and tunics to cope with the sheerness of the chemise. [7] Spanish majos, however, rebelled against foppish French Enlightenment ideals by reclaiming and elaborating upon traditional Spanish dress. [8]
The period from approximately 1760 to between 1820 and 1840 saw the transition to new manufacturing processes from traditional hand production methods to new machine production methods. [ 2 ] The textile industry was the first to use modern production techniques, namely mechanised cotton spinning with automatic machine looms. [ 2 ]
Pages in category "1820s fashion" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The 1820s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1820, and ended on December 31, 1829. It saw the rise of the First Industrial Revolution . Photography , rail transport , and the textile industry were among those that largely developed and grew prominent over the decade, as technology advanced significantly.
“Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America” opens Aug. 14 at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas.
Defining moments in 19th- and 20th-century American fashion anchor “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” but nine big-name film directors have cast those designs in a more current light ...
From bold-colored scarves to the zoot suit in Harlem to the mass popularity of bold acrylic nails, Black culture in […]