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1920s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; Photographs from the 1920s taken by photographer, Henry Walker at the University of Houston Digital Library Archived 2010-06-25 at the Wayback Machine "1920s - 20th Century Fashion Drawing and Illustration". Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories.
The end of World War I saw the rise in the economic power of the United States due to its active trade, growing industry, and support of the Allied nations in the war. Its supplying of agricultural and manufactured goods to the Allied nations greatly boosted its economy, while the economies of Germany, France, and Great Britain suffered from major decreases in export trade activity and from ...
In Britain, black tie became acceptable as a general informal alternative to white tie, though at the time the style and accessories of black tie were still very fluid. In the 1920s men began wearing wide, straight-legged trousers with their suits. These trousers normally measured 23 inches around the cuff.
The straight leg wide-trousers (the standard size was 23 inches at the cuff) that men had worn in the 1920s also became tapered at the bottom for the first time around 1935. The new suit was adopted enthusiastically by Hollywood stars including Fred Astaire , Cary Grant , and Gary Cooper , who became the new fashion trendsetters after the ...
From the 1980s on, the men's car coat started to symbolise a particular character or walk of life on British TV and in the press, especially when worn in sheepskin or camel hair. Sheepskin was the style favoured by Del Boy in Only Fools & Horses and by football managers. It was also worn by detectives in The Sweeney.
An advertisement for an interlined shirt-bosom (dickey) made of Fiberloid, a trademarked plastic material. (1912) In clothing for men, a dickey (also dickie and dicky, and tuxedo front in the U.S.) is a type of shirtfront that is worn with black tie (tuxedo) and with white tie evening clothes. [1]
Lucy Moten was born in 1851 to a free Black couple in Washington, D.C. Educated in Massachusetts and Howard University, she was director for 37 years (1883-1920) of the Miner Normal School, a ...
A raccoon coat is a full-length fur coat made of raccoon pelts, which became a fashion fad in the United States during the 1920s. Such coats were particularly popular with male college students in the middle and later years of the decade.