Fashion through the decades

Question 1

1900s-1910s Influences

Answer 1

Men: fashion led by London
Women: fashion led by Paris
Middle class followed upper class in fashion

Technology:
- increased pace of life thanks to improved motor travel led to more practical dress

Politics/society:
- increased support for female emancipation led to more practical dress sense
- More liberal thinking led to looser dresses with flowing lines and no corsets
- Increase of women doing sports led to more ‘relaxed’ dress

Question 2

1900s-1910s Design movements and key products

Answer 2

• La Belle Epoch (the end of the age of opulence)
• S-bend corset gave way to T shape in the late 1900s

Question 3

1900s-1910s fashion

Answer 3

Female:
- impractical dress
- changed several times throughout the day
- S - shape
Male
- dress was important
- simple shirt, Jacket and trousers