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As measures of changing attitudes to cuisine and fashion, by the early 21st century 80% of French croissants were being made in food plants, while, by 2014, only one factory continued to manufacture the traditional male beret associated with printers, artists, political activists and, during the inter-war years, the tennis player Jean Borotra. [70]
The shift from traditional to modern clothing occurred during the second half of the nineteenth century, with location playing an important role. Prague is a metropolis with many different Slavic nationalities (Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian, Polish), and the city changed to modern dress earlier than other parts of the Czech Republic; residents of ...
Kroje started being replaced by modern clothing during the 19th century: it started in bigger cities, and towns and villages followed. It was quicker in Bohemia and industrial regions and of course for male clothing, so on the old photos it is possible to see a father in a suit, but a mother (and possibly children) in a kroj.
The technology, art, politics, and culture of the 19th century were strongly reflected in the styles and silhouettes of the era's clothing. For women, fashion was an extravagant and extroverted display of the female silhouette with corset pinched waistlines, bustling full-skirts that flowed in and out of trend and decoratively embellished gowns ...
The end of the 19th century also was a time of a demographic boom and a rapid urbanization. [39] Population in centers of industry doubled or tripled within a few decades. At the start of the 20th century, Austria's unilateral annexation of Bosnia in 1908 caused the Bosnian Crisis and prompted the eventual assassination of Archduke Franz ...
The colon was held for a very long time as a means of clarifying extensive sentences, which was hierarchically higher than the semicolon, as was common in the spelling of Czech in the Middle Ages. Similarly, in the first half of the 19th century, the writing of an exclamation mark and a question mark in the middle of a sentence was still ...
They were most popular from the 1910s to the 1930s but continued to be worn by older women for several decades thereafter. More recently, the term bloomers has often been used interchangeably with the pantalettes worn by women and girls in the early 19th century and the open-leg knee-length drawers of the mid 19th and early 20th centuries.
Polish magnate Jan Zamoyski (1542-1605) dressed in a crimson delia over a blue silk żupan, and tied with a pas kontuszowy.The right hand holds a buława.. Żupan (Polish pronunciation:; Lithuanian: žiponas, Czech: župan, Slovak: župan, Hungarian: kabát, Belarusian: жупан, Ukrainian: жупан) is a long lined garment of West or Central Asian origin which was widely worn by male ...