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Fashion History
Fashion history is the study of the development of the purpose and intention behind garments, shoes and accessories, and their design and construction. It is part of the wider history of costume and dress
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...the art of dressing well consists in knowing the prevailing fashions, and adapting them to your particular style. What suits one will not always look beautiful on another. There should be discrimination, the result of a cultivated taste. To deviate from the prevailing mode entirely is, on the other hand, a grave blunder; for anything odd makes a lady a laughing-stock, and the dress quite out of fashion is, therefore, to be avoided.
Peterson's Magazine, June 1879
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten- This quote was said by Rose Bertin when Marie Antoinette approved a dress Mademoiselle Bertin had refashioned for her.
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For those interested in serious fashion history.
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