Women Fashion was situated on extensively elaborate and cumbersome note in the late 17th and early 18th century. Outlandish dresses, heavy ornamentation, and elaborate hairstyles were considered extremely fashionable and highly fashionable, especially in the regal and aristocratic circles of France, Russia, England and Austria.
Use of high bodice along with corset, high waistline, wide collars, complicated lacework and pleated skirts were extensively used in late 17th century women fashion. By 1850s it had changed to gigot sleeves above large full conical skirts with narrow waist to emphasize a woman’s figure. Use of silk in solid colors was fashionable in both evening and day dresses. High neck dresses were used for day time wear while low necklines were common to see in the evening parties.
By 1875 extra width in dressed had been shed for tighter silhouettes. However, typical to the fashion cycles many styles such as polonise and jeweled collars appeared and reappeared in vogue. Use of bustles, bloomers, bonnets and corsets also were an important part of all fashion dresses. 1890s saw the growth of artistic or aesthetic dresses in mainstream European and American fashion circles.
Women Fashion went for major and largely irrevocable changes in 20th century. Women liberation movements, ideals of equality and parity, abolition of royalties in many countries and the two world wars brought a total transformation in women fashion culture. Heavy embellishments, long widths and ornamentation were no longer suitable with the image of working women. Simple and practical creations, thanks mainly to designs of Coco Chanel, swept the fashion industry and the market.
Women dresses started to grow vertical than curvy. The constraints introduced by war-time economy altered the hemlines and raised them to first calves and then to knees, a status which they have so far retained. Women donned trousers, shirts, tuxedos, mini skirts, knee length gowns and shorts with equal ease. The Victorian ear had finally ended and fashion started to be more revealing than concealing.
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