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Evening dresses designed by Racine, showcasing lace high-low-skirts. Art-Goût-Beauté, 1929. The high-low skirt has a full circle hem. However, the length varies from short in front to long in back. The style originates in Victorian era dresses and formal gowns, when the hem style became known as the "fishtail".
Prom dresses, with hemlines varying from above-the-ankle (tea length) to floor length. The hemline is the line formed by the lower edge of a garment, such as a skirt, dress or coat, measured from the floor. [1] The hemline is perhaps the most variable style line in fashion, changing shape and ranging in height from hip-high to floor-length ...
They can be seen in women's clothing in art from Ancient Greece, and appeared in Parisian fashions in the 1910s-1920s, such as the dresses of designer Madeleine Vionnet. [1] Jean Patou followed Vionnet's lead, using the handkerchief hem to transition hemlines away from the shorter Flapper styles he had helped popularize, and towards the longer ...
The term was first used by the French couture designer Christian Dior as the label for his collection of spring 1955. [2] The A-Line collection's feature item, then the "most wanted silhouette in Paris", was a "fingertip-length flared jacket worn over a dress with a very full, pleated skirt".
A skirt with hem halfway between ankle and knee, below the widest part of the calf. Introduced by designers in 1967 as a reaction to very short mini skirts. [22] Miniskirt: A skirt ending between knee and upper thigh, 1960s onwards. Microskirt: An extremely short miniskirt. High-low skirt: A skirt with an asymmetrical headline.
Janet Arnold (6 October 1932 – 2 November 1998) was a British clothing historian, costume designer, teacher, conservator, and author.She is best known for her series of works called Patterns of Fashion, which included accurate scale sewing patterns, used by museums and theatres alike.
Some wear sheer aprons. The lady on the right wears a mantua. The men's long, narrow coats are trimmed with gold braid. c.1730–1740. Fashion in the period 1700–1750 in European and European-influenced countries is characterized by a widening silhouette for both men and women following the tall, narrow look of the 1680s and 90s.
A tailor is a person who makes, repairs, or alters clothing professionally, especially suits and men's clothing. Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits, coats, trousers, and similar garments, usually of wool, linen, or ...