Fashion

Fashion

Clothing had a role in establishing social status and individuality. These clothes usually consisted of plants, animal skins, and bones. Before the mid-nineteenth century, the division between haute couture and ready-to-wear did not exist. But all essential pieces of women's clothing are measured by dressmakers and seamstresses directly from their customers. Most of the time, the clothes were designed, sewn, and tailored in-house. When storefronts offered ready-to-wear, this task was removed from the burden of domestic work.

These garments became increasingly designed based on printed designs, especially from Paris, and were distributed throughout Europe, eagerly awaited in the provinces. The seamstresses then imitated these patterns as best they could. The origins of the designs were the garments designed by the most elegant personalities, usually those working at the court, along with tailors and seamstresses. Although doll fashions were distributed from France since the sixteenth century, and Abraham Bossy produced fashion engravings in the 1620s, the speed of change increased in the 1780s with the increase in the publication of French engravings illustrating the latest fashions in Paris, followed by fashion magazines. Like Cabinet des Modes.

By 1800, all Western Europeans have dressed alike. Local differences first became a sign of a regional culture in the early 20th century, fashion magazines began to include images and they became more influential. These magazines were in demand all over the world and greatly influenced public taste. Talented illustrators—among them Paul Iriba, Georges Lebaby, Erie, and Georges Barbier—created eye-catching fashion plates for these publications, which covered the latest developments in fashion and beauty. Perhaps the most famous of these magazines was La Gazette du Bon Ton, which was founded by Lucien Vogel in 1912 and continued to be published regularly until 1925.

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