75 Years of Fasion

75 Years of Fashion
By: Annalee Gold
Chapter 2 - Dresses
- Simple Straight dress comes with matching jacket called the "Costume" can be worn at formal attire, and first started being worn in 1959.  (Still worn today.)
- Also people wear the two piece dress to formal evenings.  It is called the two-piece dress.  A loose, slevless, high-necked over blouse and slim skirt in solid colors. Jacqueline Kennedy is known for wearing this dress.
- The saying, "The Little Black Dress" came from the 1960's.  It was a above the knee black dress with a thick leather waisted belt. 
- The shirtdress became very popular around 1963.  Very different from the little black dress, but became very popular from the loose fitting dress, with a colar and pockets.  This is a reccuring theme that goes away and comes back throughout fasion. 
- In 1968, a ruffled front dress became popular. Called the ruffled front chemise.  Normally had buttons down the front and long sleeves. 
-In 1968 a more revealing dress was designed.  A covered-up clothes revealed the the body beneath using cut-outs and see-through inserts of sheer fabric such as mesh. 
-In 1970 and two-piece evening outfit became popular.  It had a blouson top combined with full pajama pants with a circular cut. 


In this book, Annalee Gold explains how America's fasion has changed throughout the years and what garnments were designed and popular.  One example that supports this idea is the shirtdress.  It s a loose fitting dress with a colar.  Gold exaplains how it is "in and out" of fasion.  By that, i mean it keeps on recurring in fasion.  Another example that supports this main idea is, when dresses were starting to be designed with cut-outs and sheer fabric, it shows that our fasion is slowly getting more revealing.  Finally the author gives the example of the block dress.  It is a dress that is loose fitting and black and white block pattern on it.  It showed me that some things can be popular at one point, and considered un-fasionable at another.  These ideas are similar to, fasion in Europe.  Throughout the book, most of the designes were inspired by European fasion because our fasion has always been like theres.  But at times, ours is one step behind them.