A flat-topped hat with no brim that sometimes was adorned with tassels and was originally from the Moroccan city, Fez, but since it’s origin it has been worn by many in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa throughout history in various styles.
This dinner dress designed by Charles-Frederick Worth displays the definitive fashion trends of the early 1880s, with its complex train, protruding bustle, and apron style overskirt.
Introduced in the nineteenth century to modernize Ottoman fashion, the fez came to represent resistance to change. The processes by which this shift occurred reveal the dynamism and complexity of the late Ottoman society.
This red silk dress embodies the late 1860s transition in fashion towards the bustle and the period’s taste for bold colors and intricate detailing.
In Tissot’s Summer, a woman stands in front of a room inviting someone in, or perhaps leaving. She wears a sheer muslin dress trimmed with yellow bows, which was considered fashionable for the time. Despite it being contemporary fashion, Tissot received criticism about his works that featured this dress at the 1877 Grosvenor Gallery. Over the years, Tissot repeats this dress in multiple paintings not only for its fashionability, but also for its artistic challenge.
This crinoline-style day dress from 1855 combines decorative elements such as fringe and bold patterns and reflects the rise of voluminous tiered garments, improved cloth printing, and luxurious colors and embellishments utilized during the 1850s.
Despite the limited visibility of the garments, the figures within Henry Lerolle’s The Organ Rehearsal can be seen as a fashionable group of churchgoers to 1885 standards, complete with hats with plumes, round skirts, and somber suiting.
A banyan is a loose-fitted informal robe or gown worn by men in the late 17th to the early 19th centuries.
Paul Cézanne based his painting, The Conversation (1870-71), on a fashion plate from La Mode Illustrée, which confirms that his figures are presented in fashionable dress. He uses this content to comment on the greater social issues of the time period, as well as explore darker notions of the fabric of society.
This intricate 1855 day dress includes many fashionable elements of the time period, including beautiful silk fringe trimming and stripe designs.
In the 23rd century, ex-military taxi driver Korben Dallas must assist a mysterious being named Leeloo in recovering four mystical stones that are the key to the survival of the human race.
When the spirit of the ’60s brought new relevance to the ’20s silhouette, Norman Norell was at the vanguard of the revival. Indeed, at a time when other designers looked toward the future, Norell looked to the past.
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1883 – Charles Frederick Worth, red silk satin and velvet dinner dress
15th century – Late Byzantine Silk Damask Dress and Taffeta Tunic
The Fez and the Ottoman Path to Modernity
1869 – Red Silk Dress