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- Fashion is whatever is favored at a certain time by those who are known as "up-to-date".\
- The word "fashion" comes from the Latin, facere, meaning "to make".
- Fashion changes from season to season and from year to year.
- Books, plays, movies, and other events can affect the fashion of people.
- Kate Greenaway wrote a children's book with illustrations of a girl's unique dress in the book. That book affected little girls' fashion in the nineteenth century because that dress became the style for little girls back then.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, portrays little boys wearing wearing velvet suits and curls in their hair. This became the style for little boys in the nineteenth century.
- In the early twentieth century, brightly colored costumes from Paris-based ballets became the style for women in Europe.
- During World War II, women worked jobs involving much labor; therefore, they wore clothes that would be comfortable for the job. When the war ended, the style for women became much more casual and less formal because of the war.
- A rise in the economy in the 1970s and 1980s made people focus more on fashion, since they had more money.
- As techniques for photography and printing improved in the late twentieth century, fashion magazines from Paris were delivered all over the world to influence everybody's current style.
- In the early 1800s, the most famous influence on men's fashion was George Bryan Brummell because he recombined classic elements of the aristocratic wardrobe. He influenced men's fashion for many decades to come.
Questions:
- How can one person's style begin to affect everybody else, such as George Bryan Brummell did?
- How does fashion vary in different cultures, such as French fashion and American fashion?
- Which cultures followed the "anti-fashions" in the 1960s and 1970s?
