historicalfashion
A blog posting historical fashion garments, portraits, or drawings from the Middle Ages to the 1950s, and some special exceptions for later dates. This includes photographs, explanation of the garment, and historical details. Long live the past!
You can follow my personal tumblr here.
Find your favorite eras by navigating the tags here!
Ask me anything and tell me what you'd like to see!
You can follow my personal tumblr here.
Find your favorite eras by navigating the tags here!
Ask me anything and tell me what you'd like to see!
All the Pretty Tags
For those of you interested in specific periods of historical fashion, click to your heart’s content!
ERAS
- medieval: 1200s, 1300s, 1400s
- Renaissance/tudor/elizabethan: 1500s, 1600s
- eighteenth century
- Regency and 1820s
- Victorian: 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s (also try Civil War, early bustle, natural form, late bustle, and belle epoque, though I don’t use those tags as often as the decades)
- Edwardian: 1900s, 1910s
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
- I occasionally post things later, but not often so I won’t put those tags here. If you’d really like to see the few things from the 1970s or later that I might’ve posted, you can enter it into the URL!
TYPES OF DOCUMENTATION