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Man in full matching tweeds. British country clothing or English country clothing is the traditional attire worn by men and women in rural Britain; it is the choice of clothing when taking part in outdoor sports such as equestrian pursuits, shooting or fishing and during general outdoor activity, such as walking, picnicking, or gardening.
A Lady of Fashion: Barbara Johnson's Album of Styles and Fabrics, Norton, 1987, ISBN 0500014191; Steele, Valerie: The Corset: A Cultural History. Yale University Press, 2001, ISBN 0300099533; Styles, John: The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780300121193
The term "macaroni" pejoratively referred to a man who "exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion" [2] in terms of high-end clothing, fastidious eating, and gambling. He mixed Continental affectations with his British nature, like a practitioner of macaronic verse (which mixed English and Latin to comic effect), laying himself open to satire.
Thereafter, the embroidery measured 5 inches (13 cm) for the new 1st class, 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (11 cm) for the old 1st class, and 4 inches (10 cm) for old 2nd class; whereas the 3-inch (7.6 cm) lace for old 3rd class, 2-inch (5.1 cm) for the old 4th class and 3 ⁄ 8-inch (0.95 cm) for the old 5th class were replaced by a standard 1-inch (2.5 ...
Youth fashion was strongly influenced by many music-based subcultures such as emo, indie kids, scene kids, [140] psychobilly, preppy, skater, goth, nu metal (known as moshers in the UK), [141] ravers and hip hop, [142] including the British chav, US gangsta rapper and Mexican Cholo styles of the early 2000s.
Others started wearing a sherwani, which fused together the British frock coat and an achkan. Eventually, some men started wearing full European styles, like a pantsuit. Although one major difference that remained between Indian and European men's fashion was the style and etiquette of head coverings.
Early Anglo-Saxon women seem to have had a distinctive form of tubular dress, fastened on the shoulder with brooches, and belted. This style matches some German dresses from much earlier in the Roman period. After about 700, which roughly coincides with the general conversion to Christianity, they adopted the general Continental style. [18]
Fashion in the twenty years between 1775 and 1795 in Western culture became simpler and less elaborate. These changes were a result of emerging modern ideals of selfhood, [1] the declining fashionability of highly elaborate Rococo styles, and the widespread embrace of the rationalistic or "classical" ideals of Enlightenment philosophes. [2]
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