Women's fashions year by year: 1795 to 1948

153 yrs of women's fashion in 8 mins . Up to 1893 it's sound stuff (the original source for pre-1893 seems to have shown the spring fashion followed by the autumn one but I'm afraid I haven't reflected this in the order they appear in the frame for each year, not having noticed until it was too late, while pics chosen to fill gaps in the original for 1801, 1878, 1879 and 1886 were picked for that year from the web, at random) - after 1893 seasons are ignored and it's the work of someone who's quite fussy about dating but couldn't tell a twill from a taffeta. Acknowledgement of all image sources given in the end credits (except for half a dozen or so mislaid ones) - both thanks and apologies to all website owners concerned.

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• history
• historical
• costume
• regency
• Victorian
• Edwardian
• twenties
• thirties
• forties
• 20s
• 30s
• 40s
• modes

[jaalexis2002]

c;etait la mode pour les riches, pas les pauvres.

[wallygreeninker]

true - but some of the 20th century stuff is from mail order catalogues, popular magazines and the 'petit echo de la mode.'

[begoodi]

beautiful !....what is the music ?

[wallygreeninker]

It's 'Venus, bringer of peace' from the Planet Suite by Gustave Holst.

[FuelledByForties]

Can you imagine if this went up to 2011... You'd start of with elegant, feminine women with desirable figures dressed in beautiful sophisticated gowns and end up with lady gaga in a meat dress :/

[LittleLavender1027]

women dressed way classier in the old days i wish we still dressed that way

[Ballet4Everz]

I love the 1820 and 1840 styles :D

[annazt11]

I loved watching this! Thankyou!

[TheTelegothika]

@XHissyXKinzX Hear Hear!

I used to love Regency & Victorian fashions years before discovering Lolita, so I was amazed and excited that there is a growing popularity for dressing with such elegance. It's fabulous that Lolita exists, I wish it gained a mainstream presence of some sort in the West though and not just in Japan.

[animecatgirlroxs]

I wish oneday that they will bring this back. My fave is the later 1800 and 1900 fashion. Very beautiful and elegent but naw a days women just don't give an effort. nThrow on sweat pants and those ugly ugg boots. I am not sure bout everyone else but li like to dress nice and fancy and something that is is constructive and according to the weather. Those boots look so ugly and fall aapart...women these days. ewww...

[CrimsonPetal100]

@moodybluesgurl It is often said that women the early 1800's used to wet their dresses so that you could see through the already flimsy fabric. This is denounced as a myth by most historians as there are virtually not enough contemporary records of this commonly being done. They may have been off cases and they may have been noted for being so shocking and improper, but no respectable lady would have ever done it.

[kourobou]

What happened in 1911? It looks like 1800's. and it seems women's dress got more activity after then.

I want to try corset and classical western dress though it will not looks well on Asian like me. I love these classical clothes.

[moodybluesgurl]

this is great! does anyone remember the parts in the book Gone With the Wind how Scarlett talks about how Grandmother Robillard used to wear her petticoats soaking wet and then slightly wrung out so it would show off her legs? Did anyone really do that?

[MissModernRose]

I love all this dresses, very elegant, classy, and modest.

[fashionhistorylover]

@NobodysFool001 Seriously though the clothes up until the 1900's must have weighed a lot. Besides only the wealthiest dressed quite like that.