20th Century Fashion: 100 Dresses For 100 Years | Cultured Elegance
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100 Dresses For Every Year In The 1900s | Cultured Elegance
In this video, we will discuss an overview of 20th century fashion and how to tell the difference between the different decades. 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. We cover the Edwardian fashions, art deco fashions, Hollywood glamour, power dressing, mod looks, hippy looks, glamorous 1990s, and grunge looks.
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I feel that the biggest disappointment of the human era is that even though we started wearing more casual clothing, we stopped those beautiful extravagant parties with those wonderful embellished evening wear. Really wish that would happen again
There's a place for being casual, but we've stepped over the line now e v e r y t h i n g is casual. Also in some cases casual can to easily slide into unkempt and just plain sloppy.
@@auapplemac2441 exactly! Like a celebration party for something these days is - restaurant party, casual wear 😐
This is why the 1980’s were so great. You had the New Romantics and first wave Goths who combined glamorous clothes with punk rock parties.
Nothing changed they still exist. You’re just too poor to get invited.
During the 30's & 40, very few women wore these glamourous gowns, beautiful as they are, because of the great depression, recovering from the great depression & the second world war. The only women wearing such fabulous couture were those of celebrity status. Our grandmothers & mothers did wear pretty dresses but on a much more modified scale. I loved the fashions from the era in which I grew up, the 60's & 70's. I thought they were fun, pretty, sometimes zany & flattering. I rarely wear a dress anymore. But I do agree...the gowns from the 30's were quite beautiful.
I feel like the 1930s is the most slept on decade in women’s fashion. I know times were bleak for those without means, but there were some beautiful gowns made in that era, and the silhouette was very graceful and in my opinion, the true beginning of modern fashion.
Timeless and elegant- anyone could wear those dresses now and look in the moment
Yes! I didn't think about that decade being the beginning of modern fashion, but you are right!
@@EH23831 Yes, 100%. I think the 1920s has long been considered the beginning of modern fashion, and I understand why. It was a revolutionary period in women’s fashion without a doubt, but the real beginning of the modern silhouette debuted in the 1930s.
It's crazy how 1920s fashion looks like it's from another universe, but 1930s fashion looks so chic and still wearable today!
And the fabrics were liquid!
The problem with the body ruling fashion is that not everyone can wear that fashion. That was what was so great prior to the 20th century was that anyone, regardless of clothing size, could wear those fashions and even those of modest means could afford the look.
The first 15 yrs were beautiful, feminine, works of art. All the House of Worth years produced works of art. This was fun. Thank you!
I was a child in the 1950s and remember my mother wearing the ordinary person's version of the New Look. She looked so elegant, and even the dresses she went shopping in looked feminine and sophisticated. I wish we could bring back those styles.
My favorite is the black dress Rosemary Clooney wore when she sang LOVE, You Didn't Do Right By Me in White Christmas. I look forward to the reveal of the dress every year. I think it could be worn today and not be out of place. It's such a timeless look.
1905 is one of the most beautiful dresses I have ever seen 😍
1901 dress: The Great Glitter Factory explosion, it was glitter everywhere and in everything!
1912 dress is very pretty, would love to wear it if I had to pick one.
Love the 1910s! So spectacular
Still love the 1950s! Thank you Christian Dior 🤗
Indeed!!❤️⚜️
I was born in ‘59. When my sisters got married in the mid-eighties we all wore drop waist dresses and I can tell you from grim experience that it’s an extremely unflattering cut. No kind of accessories (hats, clutch bags) can make up for these terrible dresses. My mother was an extremely stylish woman and she used to say, “what we need is a return to the New Look. It made everyone look great.”
I was going to comment that the 80s were full of drop-waist dresses. Definitely not the most flattering look on most people.
I remember the 80s and I’m always disappointed when those fashion trends make a “comeback”….except for jelly shoes…those were “totally awesome.”
Drop waist was flattering on me(back in the day 😂). But my rise to waist is pretty short. The hip huggers and low waist pants were my favs. High waist pants digs into my rib cage which hurts.
I got married in ‘86 and my gown was more traditional, an allover white lace, Victorian-inspired basque waist and off-the-shoulder ruffled neckline. I didn’t like most current dresses, especially with the netting bodices and sleeves with those fake necklaces and bracelets woven in. I also didn’t want one of those tall, poufy headdresses, so I wore a simpler veil with a floral wreath.🙂
Can relate. Was in an 80s wedding with MAUVE SATIN dresses with stuffed poof "shoulder bubbles." Gads they were ugly.
The 1910's is my favorite. The whole Edwardian period is my favorite with fashion, architecture, etc. 1913 is my favorite dress overall. Thank you for this fun and well-researched analysis!
Me toooooooo
My favorite fashion era is the Edwardian era! Love the styles and dresses of 1912 especially.
I am only 44 years old but I LOVE the fashions of the 1950s as it is so elegant and lady like.
The purple gown from 1901 is STUNNING.
I love the dress for 1909. Just gorgeous.
That dress from 1917!!! I'd wear it today. So many beautiful dresses.
1900s an 1950s so elegant and classy! I adore these dresses!!
The 1934-35 dresses are so beautiful and can often still be found on any red carpet today. 😍
My favorite era is late 40'/early 50's, the fashion in that time can only be described as bossy feminine. Love it 😊
That 1904 dress at 00:30 is jaw dropping. I'd get married in that.
I think my favorite decade for women was the 1940’s because fabrics were scarce and my grandmother made useful dresses with buttons down the front. She added flourish with a nipped waist, darting, pockets, and sharp collars , oh and shoulder pads! The dresses were strictly knee length. Often the collars, pockets and placards were made from leftover fabric from a different project. The scarcity forced her to be creative. She made short dresses and pants for my mother and two uncles. She kept her frugal ways her whole life. The Great Depression and 2 world wars taught her to THRIFT! The porch pillows were made of leftover fabrics from dresses she made my cousin and me in the 70’s and 80’s.
The 40s was such an interesting decade. The generation of people who lived through it were strong, resourceful people. The Depression of the 30s prepared them for what was to come. I like the look and structure of most dresses of the 40s, but the giant shoulder pads are a big no for me. I hated them in the 80s when that look came back.
My fave is the 1940’s, I was born in 44, but the 40’ sttyles carried over into the 50’s. I love the tailored suits and dresses in the old movies, , like what Joan Crawford wore, My mother and grandmother dressed up to out in the daytime, like to church or shopping or out to lunch with friends They were always “painted and powdered and hatted and gloved” We were not wealthy, but they accessorized everything. They always wore a hat and gloves and carried a purse to go with their suit or dress, and they wore little bolero jackets with a sundress..to cover their shoulders and upper arms. . Grandma had a thing called a “glove clutch” that attached to the handles of her purse.The ladies would often have coffee @ the cafe in the “Paris” a fashionable department store in our city. . They wore high heel shoes and nylons with a seam along the back. they were always checking to see if thier seams were straight. lol. They were fond of ‘costume jewelry” earrings ( the screw-on earrings that were so painful to wear…ouch!!) and brooches to match They gave and attended Home parties that sold Sarah Coventry jewelry and or Tupperware They always got dresed up to go these parties. When i learned to sew in JuniorHigh school, they would bring home sacks of fabric and patterns for me to sew outfits for them. I sewed for myself and for my friends’ , usually for a wedding. The style for bridesmaids in the very early 1960’s was a fitted bodice, with shoulder cap or short sleeves and ‘bell ‘shaped semi- full skirts, hemline slightly below the knee. In the late 50’s the “knee tickler” hemline came in fashion, it was very ‘daring” and only for very young women. , but ..In high school, the dress code did not permit knee length skirts.. i never had a small waistline for the 1940’ & 50’s style, but it is still my favorite. My family did not move in social circles where large formal parties were given. Our social world was church and community. neighbors entertained neighbors, with potluck gatherings or Bridal & baby showers or home sales parties. We had no place to wear the elegant elaborate formal gowns featured in this video. Thank you, this was fun to watch.❤
I love the dresses from the early 1900s, beautiful works of art imo!
the 1910s! they’re all so unique. 1915 dress is my favourite 😍
I love all these styles! It's so interesting how there's this constant back and forth between minimalist and maximalist, short and long, fitted and loose, and how by looking at these garments you can see the clear progression, but also the outliers in between.
Very very well said!!
😍 1909 through to 1917 are my favourites! Sooo pretty and innovative
Also 1930s - timeless and elegant
I agree. 1910-1919 will always be my favorite era. I even wear my hair in a modernized Gibson Girl messy bun most days. Not quite the huge cottage loaf of the time, but similar. I would be ok with dressing like a Gibson Girl every day.
Unfortunately the same years - 1909 to 1917 - make me uncomfortable, because these dresses were modelled on the Indian sari, and my country India was still colonized and oppressed then. It's hurtful that a Britain that worked overtime to run down and insult Indian culture, had no qualms about stealing its clothing and fabrics.
@@wanderlost7707they got inspiration from many cultures, not just Indian.
The 1910s had beautiful and very unique dresses ✨💖
Anything from the 20s through the 50s! I wish we'd go back to dressing up more, especially for parties and going out! Women really knew how to dress then!
30s, 40s and 50s for me. Just so elegant and glamorous 🤩 In particular my fav dress here is 1933 😍 And 1934 looks so contemporary 😲
I loved 1937! Gorgeous
The first 2 decades were my favorite. I love Edwardian fashion, especially early Edwardian day-wear. So dreamy and romantic. And the 1930s. So elegant and sleek. The hair, the make up. The silhouettes, it was all so glamourous.
I have always loved the drop-waist and heavily-beaded styles of the 1920's!! I was a seventies child, and being so very naturally thin, the drop-waists were perfect for hiding my stick-thin figure, making it look fuller. My dress-designer mother created some gorgeous 20's dresses for me in the 80's and 90's in this style, many of which I still have. She used gorgeous modern fabrics that required very little else in the way of beaded embellishments, although I did spend many hours (weeks!) hand-beading one dress in particular - which I still have and I wore it to a charity event not long ago with all new accessories. I have to say that I would have loved the 30's styles, had I not been so thin.
The 20s were the last hurrah for heavily embellished dresses. I love that era too!
I love the drapey column dresses of the 60s/70s in absolutely lurid colours and patterns. They look so comfortable and definitely make a statement.
My favorite dress period will always be the period between 1910-1919. But I also love the 20s, 30s and 50s. The 40s were good, but I've never been a fan of huge, padded shoulders. Early 60s was nice, but after that I wish we had stopped evolving fashion to the completely relaxed/roll out of bed point we are at now.
Jeans and T shirts are my favorite and I'm glad I live in 21th century...
My favorites are 1905 and 1949.
What a hard decision! The mid 1900's to early 1910's seemed to have the most beautiful, elegant and unique gowns that look comfortable (I know there are still some corsets being worn) but the gowns of the 1930's are so feminine and elegant as well. Late Belle époque is my favorite!!
I love the dress from 1913! My favorite decade is the period from the 1910s to the 1950s
1900 - 1950’s were all very beautiful
I love love love this series! Please do the 18th century some time, such an interesting fashion century ❤ It's a crying shame there's so few extant dresses from the centuries before that...
Thank you so so much! I will!! I also will be talking about the film Marie Antoinette and all the dresses she wears very soon! You are right, very sad❤️⚜️
The dress from 1905 was stunning!!
Love the 1920's.
Seems more relaxed and we didn't have to be so body conscious ...
Love everything about fashion and learning about fashion though ...Thank you 🙏🏾
The 1930s is my favorite decade of fashion.
Lovely presentation. Thank you. The more fashion I watch, the more I think the only innovation is the zipper😊. Thanks again ❤
My favourites are the 1930s definitely!Pure elegance (I like period dramas situated in the 1930s, like "Gosford Park"). I like also very much 1902 - 1915 . I do not like everything what comes after the 1950s.
All the dresses in this video were lovely. I have a soft spot for the 70's that decade in fashion often gets a bad rap. There was a lot of beautiful elegant clothing, in 70's. Unfortunely all you ever hear any one mention are the Bell bottoms, and polyester shirts. There was plenty of natural fabrics used at that time. Wide leg trousers, some of which looked like maxi skirts if you stood still. Peasant blouse, off the shoulder, and crop tops, big floppy hats. Dam I miss that decade.
In the early to mid 70s you have missed the trend for halter neck dresses which were very popular.
A presentation of stunning and unique fashion designs through the last century. Thanks.
Thank you for your kind comment!
Wow, I have slept on the 1930's and 1940's, these are beautiful!
the 1905 is the best of all of them so elegant . 1917 my second choice .TY for your work xx
Thank you Yvonne!⚜️❤️ love your choices!!
Another really enjoyable video. I would love to see the same for menswear.
Thank you! Great idea! Coming soon
Loved the look of the 1920's.
1900-1909 is my favorite decade. I love the elegance, femininity, embellishment and full length of these dresses. Not a fan of the odd looking dresses they started wearing around 1910. Looks they had saddlebags on their hips.
I love the 1930s most the casual elegance of it all, simple, feminine, and beautiful. Really appreciate the work it took to put this video together!
Thank you so much for your appreciation!!
Your videos are always so informative and very well done!! Beautiful dresses!! I really love the beautiful often Hollywood influenced gowns especially from the 1930s and 40s. Lest favorite the late 60’s early 70s. Not much into the Hippy era look or lime green & orange colors of the early to mid 70s. This was fascinating to see a gown from each year. Love these lessons in Elegance!!😊☺️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦
The 1960 and the 1970's I liked the hippie influence on clothing. I'm a hippie of the modern age. I like the far out colors and fabrics. Love from Marysville California
I'm very inspired by the 1905 dress. The 30's were my favorites, overall. There are beautiful, timeless dresses in every decade, though.
I am 85 and my favorite style which I wore a lot was the ":sheath " which was slim. Mine were long sleeves and high neckline.
I worked in an office and knits came out mid fifties, so I wore pencil skirts(which we called straight skirts) and plain tops. In winter when wearing a straight skirt, wore long sleeve blouses which they call shirts now. The idea was to look sophisticated and is still the look I like
I like all decades except the 1980's. I lived through that decade and disliked the fashion. However, I did have 1 dress I liked during the 1980's that was pink and had a full front zipper closure. Loved that dress and wished I never got rid of it.
I always loved the '30s style, even if it's not flattering on me (I'm a pear-shaped, short-legged, almost curvy petite, so the '50s are more my style). But recently I discovered more about the fashion of the 1909-18 and I LOVE it: it gently draped around the body without forcing it into a specific shape and it was very creative in the detailing and the embellishment.
Watching the video I noticed something though: since the '70s fashion began reprising ciclically shapes and models of the prior decades, so there hasn't been really any innovation (apart from materials and technology) in the last decades of the century.
Beautiful dresses! Can you please make a video with 18th century justacorps? ❤
I want to watch this over and over. I love this video. Thank you !
1908 & 1912 are my jam! The richness of the color and exquisite beading would enhance my hourglass figure and fair complexion perfectly. It is so beautiful, that I could not help but feel beautiful if I were lucky enough to wear it. 1912 is also so flattering with an empire waist, but again the color and sparkle truly 'wow' me. Actually, I would find flattering and be happy to wear any of the dresses from 1900-1912. I wish I had an opportunity to go to a formal dinner like they had in that period, and get to wear a period dress such as these, dance at a ball and generally experience the elegance of yesteryear.
6:00 1970 you could wear this one today---very nice
Everything before the 70's
Lovely video. The dress from 1927 looks like something from today! Gorgeous!
So glad you enjoyed!❤️⚜️ quite true!!!
I lived through the decades from 60's on ,and tbh i recognise very few pf these styles, except 71/2 as I was a bridesmaid with a similar dress.
The looks from 1909, 1917, & 1948 really jumped out at me! Beautiful 😍
All decades except the 70’s! That was the decade I designed and made my own clothes! ❤❤❤
The Nifty Fifties are my favourite!
I like videos showing fashion history in detail so thank you for this. My favorite is the 1900 esp. Victorian but I also like the 40s, and 80s.
I loved many of the dresses, especially the ones from 1939, the 50's, 1969, and 1978. The 20's also looks fun.
The New Look is really good, but I am in love with the 60s style.
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I prefere the dresses from 1900 to 1910, because of their length and the quality of materials and production.
Quite right!!❤️⚜️
Oh no 😖. Dreadful era.
@@direfranchement I see, what you mean. This era might have been dreadfull, but in this case I'm only talking about the clothes, regarding to their beauty( in my personal view).
I like 1940 (the first dress shown) best of all.
Turning 20 in the 1960's, I have to say I still love those clothes. Classics will never go out of style with their clean lines, and pretty choices among many kinds of fabric made us look stylish. We had a "day" uniform sort of: skirt, blouse, and jacket or cardigan. But, for evening, we had all kinds of design chices, and every girl could find something to look wonderful in.
Late 1900s early 1910s were probably my favorite
Not sure I'd have looked good in them, but most are beautiful! Some - WOW!
Fabulous examples! 😃😍🥰💖🌷
LOVED the Video!!! ❤
Thank you so so much!!❤️⚜️
Son many wonderful dresses😍 Could you do a video on day wear? That would be great!
The 1930s was also the decade that Bias cut in Dress design. Hollywood was a major influence as well.
Ohhh wow the 2nd dress is stunning!
You can see so much influence from the earlier decades and even previous century in the later 1900s.
I love them all
Thank you ❤️.
i love this series!
Thank you Alex!❤️⚜️
brilliant video, thank you!
as far as I a concerned speaking of the eras, I hate them all...
Which era is your favorite then??
Thank you!!
@@CulturedElegance they are all fascinating and luring but never ended well... at the same time the beauty stays. great video!
These are all beautiful gowns
I love the 80s. When more is more.
The 80's were a great time for fashion. At least in my life time. Designs were elegant and beautiful. The best part is a woman didn't half to be half naked to draw attention. You could wear a sexy dress and still go out with your body covered.
The 1950s New Look is classic. You can return to this silhouette at any time, on any body, and it will still look appropriate.
I love the clothes of the 1920s and 1930s, not so much the evening looks - although there were some beautiful gowns - but the fine materials and gorgeous embroidery on day wear.
The 1903 and 1916 dresses are beautiful.
The first 20 years of the 20th century was when fashion shone. And the 30s.
The 70s are brutal as expected.
Love the fashions of the early 20th century!!
I do wish for a day when everyone dresses fancy again balls become a regular thing so we can dress up like this. I know there are events like this but I mean it would be nice if it became a tradition ❤️
1905 dress was beautiful
Yes!!❤️💓
I like the 1960s fashions, men's and women's, and most especially the early to mid-60s. Worth noting that most women were probably sewing their own from Vogue or similar patterns. My mother taught me to sew in the early '70s as she would spend so many hours making her dresses and would inevitably need a little help with spooling out fabrics and pinning this, that, or the other. Many also knitted, so you'd see all kinds of knitwear also.
The shift dresses and dropped waist dresses of the mid 1960s were influenced by the 1920s. I remember this well because I was a teenager in the 60s. I still love the psychedelic fabrics of that era.
A mí me encantan todos excepto los de los años 60 en adelante ( vamos, mi epoca 😂) .Me los de los años 20, 30, 40 y 50. encantan
I have always loved the silhouette of the 1910s, whether hobble or wide skirts it just looks so elegant. The 20s are always celebrated, but culturally more happened in the 10s, especially of those movements we now credit to the 20s. I also just don’t think the 20s style is a particularly flattering one to most body types, and there was something ‘uniform’ about it. The 30s had some great evening gowns and the New Look of the 40s/50s was also beautiful and brought a bit of elegance back into daywear but Dior was also inspired by the women whose style he remembered admiring as a child (1910s)
1925 was my favorite as it resembled a Native American style.👏🏼