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Fashion in the twenty years between 1775 and 1795 in Western culture became simpler and less elaborate. These changes were a result of emerging modern ideals of selfhood, [1] the declining fashionability of highly elaborate Rococo styles, and the widespread embrace of the rationalistic or "classical" ideals of Enlightenment philosophes. [2]
Many notable men during this period, especially younger ones, followed this new fashion trend of short unpowdered hairstyles, e.g. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), initially wearing long hair tied in a queue, changed his hairstyle and cut his hair short while in Egypt in 1798. [60]
The women's sack-back gowns and the men's coats over long waistcoats are characteristic of this period. Fashion in the years 1750–1775 in European countries and the colonial Americas was characterised by greater abundance, elaboration and intricacy in clothing designs, loved by the Rococo artistic trends of the period. The French and English ...
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.
The Ivy League style of simplified, understated suits and casual clothing was popular for young men from the mid-1950s until the end of the 1960s, when it was supplanted by the flared, colorful styles of the peacock revolution and the influences of the hippie counterculture.
The king and his court set the fashions, while attempts to keep them exclusive to the nobility met with limited success. Wealthy merchants adopted justacorps in ornate styles and fine fabrics; over the 18th century the justacorps became the standard outer garment for men in France, persisting until the French Revolution. [25]
1830s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries; The Romantic Era: Fashions 1825-1845; 1840s Men's Fashions – c. 1840 Men's Fashion Photos (Daguerreotypes) with Annotations; Men's fashion plates of the 1830s at Victoriana.com
Gowns were worn early in the period, but fell out of fashion in the 1620s. Short cloaks or capes, usually hip-length, often with sleeves, were worn by fashionable men, usually slung artistically over the left shoulder, even indoors; a fashion of the 1630s matched the cape fabric to the breeches and its lining to the doublet. Long cloaks were ...