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Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was an American women's magazine that was published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1878. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War. [ 1] Its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860. [ 2]
Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging.
2020–21: Korean men in the 1980s and 2000s-inspired outfits fashionable in the early 2020s. From 2020 onwards, many fashions of the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s returned in Europe and America. This included mixing selected contemporary fashion brands with original vintage clothing and recent thrift shop finds.
Men pulling carts of women's clothing in Garment District, New York, 1955. Fashion today is a global industry, and most major countries have a fashion industry. Seven countries have established an international reputation in fashion: the United States, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany and Belgium.
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.
A big part of the current Islamic fashion market is women's headdresses. Although men and women were both supposed to dress modestly, "The veil is a vehicle for distinguishing between women and men and a means of controlling male sexual desire". [3] There are four main styles of wearing a veil or headscarf in Islamic tradition.
Women in ghagra choli, c. 1872. Ghagra choli (also known as lehenga choli and locally as chaniya choli) is a type of ethnic clothing for women from the Indian Subcontinent, notably in the Indian states of Rajasthan, [1] [2] Gujarat, [3] Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, as well as in the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.
Russian fashion. Russian fashion is diverse and reflects contemporary fashion norms as well as the historical evolution of clothing across the Russian Federation. Russian fashion is thought to be influenced by the state's socialist ideology, the various cultures within Russia, and the cultures of surrounding regions.