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HISTORY OF FASHION

A Comprehensive directory of the best articles on the history of fashion.

1.	A brief history of the fashion show  Fashion scholars have penned histories of the high heel, the corset, and the little black dress, but no one has yet written a definitive history of the fashion show

2.	Fashion history repeats itself this year According to fashion buffs around Athens, this season’s fashion is reviving styles from past decades and combining them to make one stylish and unique look.

3.	Marie Antoinette watch tells a timeless story In 1783 a man believed to be one of Marie Antoinette's lovers ordered a watch for the French queen that had every complication known to watchmakers at the time, which, notes current Breguet president Nicholas Hayek

4.	A fashion renaissance Designers love retro, but forget about the '60s -- it's the 15th century that has them swooning

5.	60 years of fashion history up for auction From the time she was a little girl designing her own clothes until she was well into her 80s, Gladys May loved to adorn herself in the highest of haute couture.

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Perfumes: Where Do They Come From Perfumes: we spend hours choosing them, we wear them, we adore them, and they are an essential part of our images. We know all new scents that appear, we know how much they cost and where to buy them, we know what kind to wear at daytime or at night – looks like we know everything about them! Or at least it looked like that till yesterday, when my 6 year old niece watching me put on Dior’s J’adore asked a simple question: “And who invented perfumes?” I realized that except for vague ideas about Ancient Egypt and Renaissance France I could say actually nothing on the matter!

7.	Accessories the key in every fashion era If the fashionistas from ''Sex and the City" traveled back to the 19th century, they would find more conservative styles, but one element would be much as it is today: Accessories mean everything

8.	New show overturns long-held clichés about era in Rome A major new show which has opened in Rome challenges stereotypes of the 18th century as an era of cultural stagnation and casts the period in a fresh light.

9.	Fashion show to mix new, historic styles Fanshawe Pioneer Village will present its annual show: The Past & the Present: Celebrating 150 Years of Fashion tomorrow at the Best Western Lamplighter Inn, 591 Wellington Rd., at 8 p.m.

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An Online Course on 16th Century Dress Dress in this period covers the transition from the relatively softly constructed linear fashions of the Late Gothic (Northern Europe) and Early Italian Renaissance styles, into the far more rigidly constructed, padded and rather more blocky looking Tudor or Northern European Renaissance style.