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

Year by year images of women's fashions, 1949-1980, with 4 frames per year - more or less arbitrary selection- pics not in any chronological order within each year.



The music is 'Aphrodite' by Alessandro Carabelli (details at All About Jazz website)



WARNING!

1/Ideally, a slide show like this should be put together by someone with some credentials in, or a wide knowledge of, fashion history (rather than a mild interest)- but I did it anyway. I like the way the images convey the passing of years and decades.

2/ To the best of my knowledge (!) all images were published in the year shown - except that of the hippie girl in 1968b, which I believe is a later watercolour rendition of a pic of someone who attended a concert in Hyde Park, London, in that year. Ive had to try and judge which sources to trust for dates of post 1960 pattern illustrations and several individual scans.

3/Images should be seen as picked at random from each year and jumbled up within a year.
The 4 frames per year do not represent any chronological order. Because fashion seasons begin in spring and autumn it is possible that things like
Year A (all Dec pics)
Year B (all Jan pics)
Year C (all Dec pics)
(meaning situations where 2 consecutive years containing one season are followed by 3 seasons being skipped before the images for the next year) could happen but blind chance makes it unlikely.

Besides the hippie girl in 1968b, there are 2 other non-contemporary images: the mannequins from the Bath costume museum, at 1963a(rh) and 1970b(lh).

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Education

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• fashion
• women's fashion
• historical costume
• costume
• dress
• fifties
• sixties
• seventies
• 50's
• 60's
• 70's
• modes
• 1950's
• 1960's
• 1970's
• fashion history

[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)

[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.

[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.

[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

[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 !

[MsFunkytownmusic1]

i love this!

[supremeobliterator]

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

[mujersemilla]

: )

[TheNouveauxdecadence]

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

[truchita187]

I want one of each :)

[moxie127]

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

[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