Fashion cycle

The first farthingale was seen in the 1500's and universally acknowledged as the Spanish Farthingale or Vertingale which constituted of hoops made of wire, wood or whalebone, growing larger towards the bottom ot the skirt. Then the Elizabethan period of the 1600's saw the emergence of the French or the wheel farthingale. Shaped like the wheel with the woman standing right in the centre of it so an all round width was achieved. Then came the Italian one or also known as the bum roll…

The Polish Academy SAPU - Szkola Artystycznego Projektowania Ubioru (Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design) has organized two days promotion of creating clothes from recycled materials.

The life cycle of a fast fashion dress, from how it's made to where it goes when it's thrown away.

a year in #style :: #infograph

One of the most common questions I still get is “what is fast fashion?” And “why is it bad?” Simplified, the Oxford Language definition is: “Inexpensive clothing produced rapidly by mass-market retailers in response to the latest trends.” But fast fashion, and the toxic cycle it continues to perpetuate, is so much more. The clothing is inexpensive for the consumer because the costs have been externalised somewhere down the supply chain. This means quality has been cut in fabrication and ...

Catalogue page showing bicycle suits, 1896, Butternick Publishing Co