Which 18th-century courtly fashion loved hoop skirts, powdered wigs and pastels?
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Rococo
Marie Antoinette is an icon of the era.
đź’ˇ Did you know? Towering hairstyles were worn extremely high.
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Fashion is a mirror of its time: every era dressed differently, and from a hemline, a shoulder pad or a hairstyle you can often read the decade. From the powdered wigs of the nobility to the deliberately torn jeans of the young, clothing tells of wealth, rebellion and the wish to belong. This pack leads through the great style eras of history: recognise the playful Renaissance fashion and the opulent Baroque fashion, the delicate Rococo and the strict Victorian fashion, the cheeky flapper style of the twenties and the waisted New Look of the post-war years, the colourful Swinging Sixties and the glittering disco of the seventies, rebellious punk and the loose hippie style, the broad shoulders of eighties power dressing and the scruffy-cool grunge of the nineties: recognise them by their typical silhouettes and details that keep coming back into fashion. It quickly becomes clear that little is truly new: today's fashion constantly borrows from the great eras of the past and reinvents them for a new generation.
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Rococo
Marie Antoinette is an icon of the era.
đź’ˇ Did you know? Towering hairstyles were worn extremely high.
Victorian fashion
It is named after Queen Victoria.
đź’ˇ Did you know? Mourning dress was strictly black.
Flapper style
The “flappers” danced the Charleston in short skirts.
đź’ˇ Did you know? It stood for women's new freedom.
New Look
Christian Dior introduced it in 1947.
đź’ˇ Did you know? Each dress used enormous amounts of fabric.
Swinging Sixties
Mary Quant popularised the miniskirt.
đź’ˇ Did you know? Model Twiggy became an icon.
Disco
The film “Saturday Night Fever” shaped the look.
đź’ˇ Did you know? Shiny fabrics reflected the disco lights.
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