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2. Iris Apfel - Wikipedia

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   Iris Apfel ( / ˈæpfɛl / AP-fəl; [ 1] née Barrel; August 29, 1921 – March 1, 2024) was an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel had a career in textiles, including a ...

3. 1930–1945 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   1930–1945 in Western fashion. The most characteristic North American fashion trend from the 1930s to 1945 was attention at the shoulder, with butterfly sleeves and banjo sleeves, and exaggerated shoulder pads for both men and women by the 1940s. The period also saw the first widespread use of man-made fibers, especially rayon for dresses and ...

4. 1920s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   1920s in Western fashion. Appearance. Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford on board the SS Lapland in their honeymoon, 1920. A drawing picturing French women's fashion, c.1921. Typical fashion in California, 1925. Tennis player, Australia, 1924. Western fashion in the 1920s underwent a modernization. Women's fashion continued to evolve ...

5. Early medieval European dress - Wikipedia

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   English ploughmen, c. 1000. Early medieval European dress, from about 400 AD to 1100 AD, changed very gradually. The main feature of the period was the meeting of late Roman costume with that of the invading peoples who moved into Europe over this period. For a period of several centuries, people in many countries dressed differently depending ...

6. 1910s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   The 1910s in Western fashion encompasses styles from 1910 to 1919. Western fashion in this period carries influences from oriental and neoclassical inspirations as well as the subsequent effects of World War I. Over the decade, Women's fashion experienced a shift towards shorter hemlines and dropped waistlines in addition to the more practical ...

7. 1900s in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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   Men wear top hats with formal morning dress or bowlers with lounge suits. Fashion in the period 1900–1909 in the Western world continued the severe, long and elegant lines of the late 1890s. Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's broad hats and full "Gibson Girl" hairstyles. A new, columnar silhouette introduced by the ...