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Fashion through the ages

Fashion has followed social change, from Victorian dress in Britain and the Gilded Age in America to the Roaring Twenties and the fashion industry of post-colonial India. These curations show how mass production, changing social roles and colonial rule each reshaped what people wore.

Women's dress in the fashion of the 19th century industrial revolution

The fashion of the 19th century industrial revolution consists of clothing fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through 1900. Mass production of fabrics and threads for factory-made clothing, industrial sewing machines and the invention of synthetic dyes made clothing that was mass-produced.

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The fashion trends of the roaring twenties and flapper style

The fashion trends of the Roaring Twenties were a modernization of Western fashion: women wore looser clothing revealing more of their arms and legs, while men adopted less formal daily attire and sportswear entered mainstream fashion. From 1925, the public more passionately embraced the styles now typically associated with the Roaring Twenties.

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Gilded Age fashion changes in styles and technology

The fashion of the Gilded Age in America is Victorian fashion, the clothing styles and trends that emerged and developed in British culture in the United Kingdom and British Empire from roughly the 1830s through 1900. The period saw many changes in styles, fashion technology, and methods of distribution.

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How colonialism shaped post-colonial Indian fashion

The fashion landscape of post-colonial India is the fashion industry that grew from India's long clothing and textile traditions. This path helps readers understand how colonial rule, economic change and efforts to revive traditional crafts shaped the industry, and explores its history, designers and workers.

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