History of fashion

[D.B. Cooper]

Here we will post any cool, interesting, or just plain cool clothing throughout the ages. Because history isn't all wars and battles.

Louis XIV

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[TRSjarmen]

[IMPERATOR_5]

Napoleon

[Lord Tomyris]

The height of urban fashion in Revolutionary France:

[Visna]

I love some of the cuts on dresses in the late 15th to mid-16th century.


I have a couple of dresses sort of like that one.


Later on it became narrowed down a bit in some places, sort of like this



Although it could go too far....

[Holger Danske]

Errr, that's pushing a bit I say... Women with shoulders as broad as that is just not appealing in my book

I must say I'm found of the Romans...



Badass...

[Old_Scratch]

I find the paintings of 16th and 17th century Dutch artists to show an interesting variety of fashion.

Here's one by Peter Paul Rubens, 1609

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And one from Rembrant, 1642

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[★Bandiera Rossa☭]

Well we all know fashion merely started when some unwashed Barbarian decided to cover his dick with some animal furs so It wouldn't freeze off in the winter, This caused an increase in births and thus civilization was born

[Lord Tomyris]

Height of Zulu fashion in the late 19th century, the king Cetshwayo:

[D.B. Cooper]

Janissaries:

[Pallantides]

The Seminole wore some nice looking clothes.

[Lord Tomyris]

The Sea-Green Incorruptible:

[Holger Danske]

Rofl... talk about bad hair day...

[Lord Tomyris]

Madame de Pompaphwoar!