Sunday, January 17, 2010

Early 19th Century Men's Fashion

The fashion of the last days of 18th century passed on many traits to early 19th century men's fashion. As what's normal, the sacque suit was the casual day dress of men. In formal events, men wore tail coat paired with a top hat and a black patent-leather shoes. Knickers, which was called knickboxers before were also common in those days.

After world war 1, particularly in the mid 1920's, baggy pants entered the fashion scene. Many students were wearing baggy pants with an Oxford bags. A few moments later, it was then introduced to the American market which also brought a seemingly not huge impact at the time. After a few years, baggy pants were on its peak, spanning for more than twenty years, it has been one of the coolest and most fashionable clothes in men's fashion(including men's ties)  in the early 19th century.

Most of the fashion trends that were at the American market in the early 1900's came from Europe. Clothing styles were traced by historians and figured out that most of the clothes in the era were coming from Old Scotland and other several parts of eastern Europe.

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