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The United States of America has generally followed, and in some cases led, trends in the history of Western fashion. It has some unique regional clothing styles, such as western wear . Blue jeans were popularized as work clothes in the 1850s by Levi Strauss , an American merchant of German origin in San Francisco, and were adopted by many ...
The history of Medieval European clothing and textiles has inspired a good deal of scholarly interest in the 21st century. Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard, and Kay Staniland authored Textiles and Clothing: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, c.1150-c.1450 (Boydell Press, 2001).
The homespun movement was started in 1767 by Quakers in Boston, Massachusetts, to encourage the purchase of goods, especially apparel, manufactured in the American Colonies. [1] The movement was created in response to the British Townshend Acts of 1767 and 1768, in the early stages of the American Revolution. [2] [3]
The history of clothing encompasses the clothes worn in various places at various times and the methods by which those clothes were made or acquired. Subcategories organized by date: Category:African clothing covers Clothing worn in north Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, from paleolithic to the pre-modern era; Category:History of Oceanian ...
Meanwhile, North American countries like Mexico, which provided nearly 8% of clothing imports in 2005, have fallen behind. As a result, clothing exports have become economic pillars in certain ...
The history of clothing (Western fashion) generally covers clothing worn in Western Europe, the Americas, and countries under European or American influence from c. 1750 to World War II. Clothing popularly worn in Medieval Europe is categorised under Category:Medieval European costume. Modern clothing is categorised under Category:History of ...
[1] According to Brandes, feed sack fashion was a reflection of rural culture in the first half of the 20th century. [2] Brandes notes that fashion history has largely been written without including the fashion of rural communities. [2] She called the feed sack garments part of the "cultural heritage of rural America."
According to a brief history of the shirt waist written in 1902, the fashion for the Garibaldi shirt was initiated by Empress Eugénie of France. [notes 3] Its first mention is in 1860, and clothing historian says of it: "The Garibaldi jacket, of scarlet cashmere with military trimmings of gold braid, was hailed as 'the gem of the season'."