Crisp Spearmint

Crisp Spearmint by CatsMeowDoll

Diamond pendant
etsy.com

Pink scarve
etsy.com

Palette eyeshadow
100percentpure.com

1960's Japanese Fashion

1960's ad illustration

1960's, Young Wom

Young Woman Magazine, 1969

1960's Young Woman Magazine

1960's Young Woman Magazine

1960's Young Woman Magazine

1960's Young Woman Magazine

1960's Young Woman Magazine

Also see this video below of a 1960's Japanese clothing commercial, "Ye, Ye"

1960's Japanese coat ad

1960's Japanese coat ad

1940's - 50's Hair Pins and Barrettes

Cute decorative Mid - century hair pins and barrettes.

1940's - 50's hair pin

1940's hair barrette

1940's hair pins

1940's - 50's hair pin

1940's - 50's hair pin

1950's hair barrette

1950's hair barrette

1940's - 50's Mickey Mouse hair pin

1950's celluloid plastic hair barrette

1940's - 50's hair barrette

1940's hair pins

1940's hair pin

Bell-bottoms, 1960's & 1970's

1969

Bell-bottoms were first worn by sailors in the 1800’s, possibly even in the late 1700's, when they began to wear wide legged trousers with bell cuffs.  The first written descriptions of bell-bottoms can be found in an 1813 writing by Commodore Stephen Decatur.  He noted that men working on ships were wearing “...blue trousers with bell bottoms.”  The bells at the leg of the pants allowed the sailors to roll them high for messy clean up jobs on the deck of the ships.  Also, if a sailor fell into the water, the bell-bottoms could easily be pulled off over boots and the wide legs could be inflated for the use of life preservers.

It was in the 1960’s that bell-bottom trousers began to be worn in high fashion for both women and men. 

Twiggy, 1966

1960's

1960's

1960's

mid - 1960's

At that time, young people found inexpensive bell-bottoms at military surplus and secondhand stores.  Wearing this style of trouser was popular as an antiwar statement, especially when embellished with embroidered flowers and peace symbols.

bell-bottoms belonging to Janis Joplin

1969

At first clothing manufacturers didn’t sell bell-bottoms since they were looked at as the clothing of radicals.  People who couldn’t find them secondhand or at military stores began making their own and adjusting the outside leg of regular trousers by sewing in fabric to make the leg wider.

It wasn’t until the 1970’s that bell-bottoms moved to being a mainstream fashion garment.
By that time designers began to produce bell-bottoms in many fabrics and prints as a trendy item.

1970's

Wrangler ad designed by Peter Max, for bell-bottom jeans  

1970's Hasbro ad, even dolls wore bell-bottoms

“Elephant bells” became fashionable starting in the mid 1970’s;  these were bell-bottoms that were flared under the knee and that covered the shoes.  People wore platform shoes with elephant bells in order to keep the hems from touching the ground.

Elephant Bells, 1970's

1972

1970's disco bell-bottoms

1970's

my mom wearing bell-bottoms in the 70's

References:  1. Wikipedia  2."Bell-Bottoms." Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 13, 2015). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3425500587.html

Victorian and Edwardian Lingerie, Turn of the Century

Lingerie, circa late 1800's to 1909.

A lingerie trousseau of that era would include;  stockings, garters, bloomers or pantalets, chemise and/or camisole, corset, petticoat(s), bodice, brassiere, corset cover, and/or camisole, underskirt(s), lingerie pins, dressing jacket and/or gown, and nightgown.

1906 - 1910

Above I have mentioned the garments in proper order of dressing, up to the lingerie pins.  Here below, in no specific order, are some amazing late Victorian to Edwardian lingerie pieces I have found.

bust bodice, c. 1905

I love the pretty fabrics used for lingerie of the later Victorian and Edwardian eras, like satin, lace, linen, and silk.  Even though 1900's Turn of the Century undergarments were not meant to be seen publicly, or talked about at all, there was still a great attention to detail in the production of the lingerie of that time.

Madame Lemay silk damask corset, circa 1901

linen and silk lingerie, c. 1890 - 1900

petticoat, c. 1900's

stockings, c. 1900's

garters, c. late 1800's

There were lots of layers!  Garments were worn under and over the corset, and the camisole was sometimes referred to as a corset cover or vise versa.  Stockings were held up by garters, garter belts were not yet introduced, but sometimes garter snaps were attached to the corset.  There was also a small lived fad for sleeve supports in the 1890's, please see image below.

sleeve support, c. 1890's

lingerie pin, c. 1900

lingerie pin, c. 1900

 

lingerie pin, c. 1900

"As woman's fashions changed in the nineteenth century, and a woman showed more and more of her shoulders to an adoring public, the need arose for a way to hide all the thin straps of lingerie and other underclothing. A quite inventive conceit of this period were lingerie pins...often with an embedded pearl or small gemstones...They were sometimes worn on top of the outer garment, or underneath the dress to keep the lingerie from "peeking out."  

-Jewelrymaking Through History: An Encyclopedia

1880's - 1990's dressing gown

nightgown, c. 1907

camisole c. 1905

bra, c. 1900's

camibloomers, c. 1900

bloomers, c. 1890's

petticoat, c 1905

petticoat or underskirt, 1895-1898

Victorian underskirt

corset, late 1800's

Corset Maison Léoty (French) 1891

corset c. 1900 - 1909

Exquisite Princess Petticoat w/ Valencienne Lace, view 1

Exquisite Princess Petticoat w/ Valencienne Lace, view 2

dressing jacket, c. 1900's

dressing gown, c. 1900

dressing gown detail

dressing gown, c. 1900

nightgown, c. 1900 - 1903

French nightgown, c. 1900

Negligee, 1900, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections