Also, women wore stylish hats that emphasized bold colors and a freer design. The clothing styles during the 1920s reflected the carefree, happy-go-lucky feeling of the time. The music in the 1920s also helped change peoples attitudes and ways of living. The African American culture was grea...
Harris could become the first woman president. But she didn’t say that in her speech. Delegates wore suffragette white; Harris’ suit was deep navy blue. Mia McCarthy08/23/2024, 1:14am ET If Kamala Harris is elected this November, she will become the first woman president of the United...
1930s men’s suits colorsfavored medium blue, tans, beige, cream, golden browns, and many shades of grey in spring and summer. Fall and winter featured navy blue, medium brown, and dark grey tones. Besides color, the 1930s man wore suits with distinctive patterns.Bold patternssuch as la...
The Mao suit was worn in the 1920s and 1930s by civil servants in China. A modified version was worn by the military until the Sino-Japanese War. Nearly all men wore it after the establishment of thePeople’s Republic of Chinain 1949 until the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. ...
acceptable for men already a long time, it became a big trend for women in the 1920s. Many fashion historians attribute the sportswear trend toCoco Chanel. However,Jean PatouandJane Regnyalso designed clothing. Think, for example,Jean Patou’s famous tennis-inspired yellow skirt and sweater ...
for organizing all Manchu families into administrative divisions. The traditional dress that Manchu women wore became known as the qipao (旗袍, meaning banner gown). After 1636, all Han Chinese men in the banner system had to wear the male version of the qipao, called the chángpáo (長袍)....
By the mid 1920s, men had stopped wearing boiled shirts in favor of softer more lightly starched shirts. However, the stiff look of formal wear could be maintained by wearing a smartly tied bowtie and the right waistcoat. When you think of some of the elegant male actors of the past,...
The Beatniks were a group of American poets, authors, and intellectuals who became common in the 1950s and early 1960s. Beatniks were known for their stereotypical style of dress, which differed drastically from the cookie-cutter mainstream fashion of the time. Beatniks typically wore black, ...
Just a week earlier, over the East River in Queens, purpled bodies had piled up in the overflow shed of Cavalry Cemetery, enough that the mayor brought in 75 men to bury the accumulated corpses. Together, the end of the war and the influenza pandemic closed out a tumultuous decad...
Turtlenecks are a type of shirt with a long collar that extends up over the neck. There are several variations on turtlenecks...