Women's fashions: year by year: 1949-1980

[MsFunkytownmusic1]

i love this!

[mujersemilla]

: )

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

WOuld LOVE 19981 to 1989 as well, beautiful stuff here :-)

[supremeobliterator]

@TheNouveauxdecadence I was going to ask that. I would love to see a 1980s fashion video simular to this one.

[NotAWarPerson]

what is this song? it is awesome

[wallygreeninker]

@NotAWarPerson The music is 'Aphrodite' by Alessandro Carabelli (details at All About Jazz website where I downloaded it from the free samples)

[truchita187]

I want one of each :)

[moxie127]

This is awesome. Can we have the year by year of 1980-2000?

[MiGrm9]

what a great post. I especially love the music.

[gameonline13]

i wonder what fashion will be like by the year 2020

[Mandinko23]

the40s till 60s are my favorite fashion era, they have some of the most elegant, sophisticated and modest evening gowns.

[UpwardsFallings]

PLEASE PLEASE upload 1980-2010. :)

[Weshallnotcease]

Beautiful. Wonderful resource for costuming. Love your variety of high fashion and pattern and catalogue photos. Very well done. Thank you.

[MrWINNSLAW]

"The vintage (old school) look is always classy and cool."

[AnnonymZooeyFan]

“A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed” -- Coco Chanel.

I like this quote. Hidden body is the one that is most attractive and girls seem to not understand it these days with all the mini skirts, naked navels etc...

[AnnonymZooeyFan]

Those old good days when women knew how to dress.

[199112171433]

PLEASE ADD AFTER 1981,UNTIL 2010！

[emckelvy]

Something just went horribly wrong in the 70's..

[barnyardbabe]

UGH! Did anyone notice how the "classy" factor so soon went away??

[barnyardbabe]

i love the transition from the boyish sillouette in the 20's to the "womanly" shape in the 40's

[Fritha71]

Fashion changes, that's the *essence* of fashion. (Well, nowadays it mostly gets recycled but you know...) Anyway, some people really should stop pandering for bygone eras and get with the times! I'm certainly not willing to start wearing a corset to achieve that hourglass shape body. And can you imagine wearing skirts and dresses when it gets freezing, like well belove zero?? Not to mention how much more expensive clothes made of huge amount of fabric would be. Plus, women need their mobility!

[doodlechick118]

@SkyLightningBolt

So are women ment to wear ball gowns from the 1800s?

You sound like ur saying 'oh the poor men have to oogle the slutty looking girls!'

Guys don't have to oogle us!!!

x

[1986MetalHead]

I love video,I wanna wear a dress every day !

[gwenshin]

I'd love to see one from `80 till the present. How it deteriorates even MORE! lol.

[yonisfarah]

@gwenshin I can't believe what I am seeing. The dresses are getting smaller and smaller. Soon you'll see women walking around naked..lool.

[gwenshin]

We went from classy gloves and hats to paying hundreds of dollars for RIPPED up denim pants, and sneakers! Has it not occurred to anyone how the public has been played for suckers and will buy any piece of trash if it's "sold" to us correctly?

[HongLulu]

Kitűnő ! Excellent !

Thank you very much !

Greetings from Hungary

[chuchubear90]

I love both the videos (1795 - 1948 and 1949 - 1980) and I think it's interesting to see how trends come and go constantly.

Like at the beginning of the 1795 video you see more simple fitting outfits on the women before they become extravagent and that is a recurring theme that could even be seen in the 1910's and 1920's.

I have a jacket that my grandma wore in the 70's and no one can tell unless they ask me where I got it from. Keep everything because it may come back in style!

[KiittyCupcake]

5:57 You used a picture of Gia Carangi :)

[unfortunatebeam]

Wow notice a big increase in women wearing pants from 1968 onwards?

[mamby3]

great work!

thank you

[rosieparez]

In my opinion once the late 60's hit that was the end of the romantic classy era.....after that it seemed to be very blah and lack luster for me.....hell just down right ugly. I think the fashion from the 70s and 80s were the worst yet we have managed to bring back those styles....God only knows why......Bring back the 50s....I like class and saphistication

[TasteOfTorment]

My mom grew up in the 50s and she remembers when her mother used to wear those dresses around the house. They were so cute.

[KiittyCupcake]

Those styles came back cause they're great.

[SkyLighteningBolt]

True

Sadly women are nothing but meat these days for men to oogle at.

So the men designers slowly made clothes with less cloth as time went by so men can oogle some more.

Just look at what young teenage girls are wearing today..they look more like hookers thanks to designers who set the fashion trends.

Fashion has set women rights back 100 years because women are looked at more like a slab of meat more today than ever.

Dress with class or dress like a slut !

[superbruce]

@SkyLighteningBolt ...you said it ! Part of the womens movement was supposed to liberate roles from being seen as sex objects- it has done just the opposite. Men dont have to treat women like'ladies' anymore- because women don't demand it- and that is do in part to the slutty way that many of them dress....

[kenlo77]

@rosieparez Very true ... what happened was the skirts got to short. Too short for girdles and stockings ... too short for those lacy slips. There was something so soft and feminine about women and girls hiding their lacy underpinnings under skirts and dresses back then.

[MegaLoLz096]

@rosieparez i think the 80's were awesome fashion hair and music

the 50's was good but not as good as the 80's

[asiestaremejor]

Wonderful videos (1795-1948 and 1949-1980)!!!

Please,upload a video about the 1981-2009 period....that,s excitement!!

Thanks!!

[123ILoveD]

i love this vid i think grls now r tryin 2 dress like they did in da 40's thats y lots of grls r wearin theyr dresses like a shirt n a scirt n a belt over the shirt yup xD

[MosaicMaiden]

Yep I think i like the fifties evening gowns!

Than You!

[bobduvar]

Yves Saint Laurent,1936-2008

a great French fashion designer.....

[wallygreeninker]

The Trapeze dress (1958b - centre) and the 'Mondrian' shift dress (1965b - far right) are his.

[kalipso1821]

a great video, a journey to the past! bravo!!

[bobbobato]

Very interesting. Can't wait for 1981-2009/2010. It should be very interesting to watch the evolution of fashion from the 1790s to today. Ever thought of going earlier than 1795, though? maybe the 1590s?

[wallygreeninker]

I'm not sure if I'll go on to 2010 - depends how easy it is to find enough material - esp mail order catalogue stuff. I get the impression that regular periodicals with updated fashion plates didn't exist until the 1790s and that there was also much more variation from country to country before then so that it may be a bit too difficult or pointless to go back to the 16thC on a year by year basis.

[UmeMurasaki]

@wallygreeninker your missing the most beautiful fashion era since you started at 1790's and skipped the Rococo era with all the bows & pastels

[saRaa0110]

do you have the list of websites from where you got these pictures like the one in the previous video??

[wallygreeninker]

Because of CD burning error I lost the exact source for each image - I could track back where I got them from although I'm having trouble re-locating one particularly useful sixties site. If anyone is interested the I could send a list of sites used from my bookmark folder to anyone requesting via youtube messages.

[meandmymakeup]

I love this video and wondered if you coul send me the list of sites you used via youtube message. Thank you

[fashionhistorylover]

Nice video. Liked the 50's the best in this video but there were some good pictures in the 1960's and 1970's section. Best dress in video. The white one at 6.47. The 70's seemed to have a revival of long, flowing dresses which flowed in the 1980's with Laura Ashley dresses,etc.

[glamourdaze]

great video.

well done.x