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As early as 1890 the first osnaburg sacks were recycled on farms to be used as toweling, rags, or other functional uses on farms. [2] [4] A paragraph in a short story in an 1892 issue of Arthurs Home Magazine said, "So, that is the secret of how baby looked so lovely in her flour sack: just a little care, patience and ingenuity on the mother's part."
The brands that embraced these styles first do it best, so much so that fashion can’t help but tap into the zeitgeist by way of collaborations. “My husband is actually a farmer,” Mears says.
Brightly colored clothes and accessories became fashionable in the 1950s and the bikini was developed. The main article for this category is 1945–1960 in Western fashion . See also: Category:1950s clothing
Since the 1850s, sheep farming has been New Zealand’s most significant and important agricultural industry. Since the mid-1880s, New Zealand’s wool industry dominated most of the agricultural earnings for over a century. [26] Sheep farming was first introduced to New Zealand by Captain James Cook back in 1773. The development of sheep ...
In the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, many families emigrated overseas — like Wong’s, who moved to the UK when she was 15 — for better opportunities, and elderly residents passed away. Lai Chi Wo ...
From the early 1950s until the mid-1960s, most Indian women maintained traditional dress such as the gagra choli, sari, and churidar. At the same time as the hippies of the late 1960s were imitating Indian fashions, however, some fashion conscious Indian and Ceylonese women began to incorporate modernist Western trends. [ 66 ]
In the 1950s, pants became very narrow, and were worn ankle-length. Pants cropped to mid-calf were houseboy pants; shorter pants, to below the knee, were called pedal-pushers. Shorts were very short in the early 1950s, and mid-thigh length Bermuda shorts appeared around 1954 and remained fashionable through the remainder of the decade. Loose ...
Category: Fashion by decade. ... 1950s fashion (10 C, 120 P) 1960s fashion (14 C, 167 P) 1970s fashion (13 C, 184 P) 1980s fashion (11 C, 231 P)