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In high school I got in a serious push bike accident because my flared jeans got caught up in the chain (I think) and I toppled over going down a hill. I didn’t bike in that cut of jeans again. I feel that actually started my love of skinny jeans because they could always be tucked into my boots.
i definitely cut open my jeans and sewed in colorful gussets in the late 90s in hs. we all couldn't afford new jeans so it was trendy at my poor hs to do that instead. it was kinda terrible since walking everywhere in the snow with big flaps of quilting cotton around your ankles is not practical at all.
I make my own Victorian-inspired clothing, so this is the most I've learned about modern fashion trends in years. It feels almost academic- fashion history in the present day!
I'm 59 and I have a pair of stylized taupe mary janes that I love. I don't feel childish when I wear them👵. I think fashion will stay comfortable and, if I had my way, very long lasting in our future. Fun can be added in clothing as well and made of composable fabrics. I can dream.
Ah, memories of the 1970s, of adding wide triangles to the jeans calf seams and a couple of inches to the bottom. We weren't worried about how the back hem got grated away or mud-soaked. It was part of the look.
The vast majority of people don't do that which is why fashion changes over time and often through different combinations and little things like shoes and jackets and accessories. It is also teens to change their cloths a lot not just because of fashion but because they grow so they need new cloths.
@@katecapek3116 Being a naturally lazy person I use the 66k/99k for the heavy materials. I do love my 201k to my bones but she's a lot happier with medium and lightweight fabrics as the presser foot height adjust is ever so sensitive, and once that goes out of balance there goes your tension as well. The 66k/99k have none of those issues and can eat though denim. One massively surprising thing to their credit is how well the 201ks do with modern elastic thread, just perfect stitches and you can sling viscose rib knit though a machine with a straight stitch plate which will never snarl that fabric like a zig zag machine would.
Wait, so suede is still top-up, just with the shiny layer shaved off? That's interesting, and I think it's interesting to look at how terms change in other countries. In Romanian it's called 'turned leather', because the definition is specifically referring to using the underside of the leather rather than shaving the top layer. And indeed, any traditional items made with suede are made with leather that's turned to the other side, rather than the shaved type you refer to throughout. We don't even have a term for suede that is a perfect translation.
We didn't need it in English until recently, apparently! I do feel like it also implies a level of softness to the leather which is not always present. A little less stiff.
It still freaks me out every time I see teenagers running around in Y2K fashion, because the thought of teens wearing the trends of their parents' youth is just weird. I get trends coming back after maybe two generations, because the fashion has been out of style long enough to no longer read as behind the times and instead being a true revival.
Another amazing post! Thank you Nicole. I still remember, as a now 68 year old, when at 5 years of age!, i thought that my aunt's black bra and black stiletto & pointed shoes were scandalous. (saw them in her closet) I've seen and experienced a lot of the fashion you mentioned today. It interests me how one's point of view: age, social, cultural and financial standing influenced how fashion was/is seen. It's never been a uniform point of view.
Am I the only one who finds leopard print, the the majority of cases, truly tacky? I don't know what it is, but I just don't like it unless it's in small doses, as an accent. Maybe it's just too busy for me.
I've never cared for it, but my late grandmother adored it. I sold shoes for almost 20 years, and anytime a shoe came in with leopard print, it would sell out very quickly.
Thanks for explaining style and silhouette, I've never been able to figure out what does or does not go with what (or why) and this is helping. I have a lot of disparate interesting bits in my wardrobe bought through the 90s-2010s and a lot of them are neat on their own but how do I match that with anything else I have? And also, I've got plans for making some Big Pants soon and before this video I had no idea what on earth I'd wear them with. You made me think back to the kinds of shirts I was wearing the last time I bought even remotely fashionable clothing, the early 2000s, and I liked the flares I bought at the time and still wear them now because they're comfortable (most of them were made with stretch-corduroy and the off-the-hip style was in then too which meant I didn't have waistbands up my ribcage thanks to my short waist and shot rise). And thanks for pointing out what I've been missing with my head buried in the sand working on historically--inspired clothin, that comfort has become a big thing in fashion right now. That's a bandwagon I can hop on easily! (because I can actually MOVE in those PJ pants I've been wearing since lockdoowns!)
I've found a lot of inspiration in the current trends of wearing clothing "wrong"- taking a 1920s mens oversized shirt and wearing it untucked with the buttons only done at the top. Add a waistcoat or short jacket for shape. It's been a fun way to see what works and what doesn't without buying new things!
This is one of my favorite videos you’ve done! I see the barrel pants/jeans trend mirroring the earliest bell bottoms from the early 1820’s (that you showed). Personally I dislike them. I remember my mom in the early 1970’s not buying me bell bottoms because she thought they’d go out of fashion too soon. She had zero fashion sense! Small doses of leopard is the only way I’ll wear that trend. I made a ribbon belt of leopard print in the late 1980’s that I wore till my waist expanded.
What with the current "comfortable but interesting" trend and with global warming, now is the PERFECT time to make kaftans, thawbs, and shalwar-kameez into everyday wear. They can be made in super comfortable printed muslins
Lol I have been doing that since the 80s! Those pants are so incredibly comfortable, especially for crawling on the floor cutting out multiple theatre costumes.
XD When you were talking about suede and boxy styles, all I could think of was my LARPing armour, which is suede with leather plates and has *very* boxy shoulders. It's also one of the only things I actually feel like I look nice in, since my body shape doesn't really go well with fitted styles.
I love your objective take on fashion history. Regardless of whether or not it's to your taste, you frame everything in context. You're hands down one of my favourite youtubers and I always recommend your videos to people - you're how I know how to get heels to fit!
I really appreciate the research and presentation. The history of anything is interesting to me, but especially clothing, hats, shoes, and accessories, including jewelry (because I wire wrap and I sew and crochet and quilt and weave, and do leatherwork, and a lot of other things) I set out to learn various different crafts with the goal of making my home and wardrobe as completely as possible, by my own hands. I don't know if I'll actually do it, but it's been a lot of fun so far, as well as a lot of work
I had a pair of the red leather double strap t-straps in that buster brown ad! The first pair of shoes I remember. My toddler self threw a huge fit to get them and they began my love of shoes and red ones in particular! 🤣
I feel like the nineties sexy feeling of leopard stayed until the 2010s when they rebranded it as cheetah print and made it playful and colourful, and young. Pairing it with the sort of ballet inspired clothes and the over the top harajuku styles. My kids have had leopard print clothes for years in very cute children's clothes but its always labelled as cheetah print, every now and then they actually make cheetah print outfits, but mostly it's mislabeled leopard.
I’ve learned so much from your videos that I need to pass a bit on. Your tutorial on buttonholes led me to spend countless hours making them until I get compliments from experienced sewists now on how great mine are.
Going to an Army/Navy surplus store & getting a Pea Coat & sailor pants was kinda a thing at my high school in the 70s. Suede desert boots were very in too. I've always associated flare/bell bottoms with sailors & gauchos/cowboys (to fit over the boots & spurs) The main thing against the flares of the 90s & why I did not wear them was the low, low rise. Sometimes barely 3 inches. I could never figure out why anyone wanted to show off their thong.( I know, naval piercings & low back tattoos were trending as well) Hip huggers were a thing in the 60s but they weren't indecently low. I'm looking forward to the return of a high waisted flare jean with seaming details.
Love me a pea coat ! I need to find an Army/Navy store & buy another one ! Loved that BIG COLLAR. Kept the wind off your ears ! That and a scarf & I rarely even needed a hat !
I read on wardrobe planning ages ago -- should I date myself? -- all right, might as well give credit where credit is due! The book was by Barbara Johns Waterston, and the title was "Pull Yourself Together." One quote I remember, which is pertinent to this particular episode was: "Fashion may borrow from the past, but it never returns." The author was advising against hoarding items such as 1980s heavy shoulder padded jackets, your grandma's Kimberly knits, or Dad's polyester leisure suits in hopes that they will "return to fashion." There may be a market for vintage clothing at times, but not that kind of "vintage."
I was always told that suede couldn’t be conditioned, but I have a vintage suede (or, technically rough-out) coat from the 70s, and it was very dry, so I figured I’d just try it anyway. Surprise! It can totally be conditioned. A heavy, cream- or wax-like conditioner darkens it a lot and mats down the nap, but a lighter lotion-like conditioner (I used Bick 4) soaks in nicely. When it has, you bring the nap back up with a suede brush, and voila!
My cousin Karen and I loved wearing flared pants in the 1970's because they successfully hid the orthopedic braces we had to wear for her Cerebral Palsy and my Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. It was during the mega-leggy mini-skirt era. Think Seventeen magazine and wanting to look like ANOREXIC Twiggy. Karen looked like Twiggy and she lived in a larger city, but in my small town, girls were not permitted to wear pants to school. yes, there were very fierce dress codes in that day. Seriously, in those times you could wear mini skirts, bur not wear pants. Not any pants not even jeans. On the first day of sophomore high school, I was called into the the principal's office and got detention. For wearing the mother superior's costume from the "Sound of Music" theatrical costume from our theater program the summer before. Karen became an engineer in a largely male dominated field. I just sew clothes.
There's a book in there ! That is an interesting story. Because I lived through that era (born 62), I remember being hushed when I saw a disabled man on the street. I asked my mother - he had his sleeve pinned up - and my mother almost murdered me for asking. She practically strangled me while rushing me past this man. Things like disability were NOT discussed. I can't imagine how hard that was to disabled kids.
The average person isn't forcing their personal style tastes to the whims of 'daaaa trends'. We are forcing trending styles to fit our personal style. If I like a certain type of trend I will force it to fit in with my cringelord urge to dress like a 80s hair metal rocker. 😅
Flares are definitely in right now. I was just at a gathering and I was laughing at how both I and my two friends were all wearing high waisted flared jeans. Our ages range from 23-39
I fall in the high end of that range admittedly, but I haven't given up my flares since like 2003 😅 My calves don't fit in skinny and barely into straight leg jeans, so while I can still get them, I'll be wearing flares
I just ordered some burgundy red chunky mary janes after hunting for this exact pair for few weeks. Thought it’d be a fun twist on my office wear, something to replace my oxford shoes for some time, chunky but not so chunky as some doc martens styles, square toe because didn’t want them to be too feminine, lower cut shoe but not a ballet flat which i hate with all my soul and burgundy is a good off-black dark option… ya, accidentally jumped on a major trend item that ticks bunch of trend boxes. And my mom lost a similar pair on a trip to France in ‘90s. Thought i’d be unique… 😅😅😅
8:26 there's even an earlier instance, even though I don't think it was as broadly of a thing: in pontormo's fresco of Vertumnus and Pomona from like the 1510s/20s, one of the figures had me do a double take, because her silhouette, even the hair looked so 1830s to me
It would be so great if delicate and more youthful styles like ingenue and yin-gamin would come back finally as I really struggle with all the current dramatic and oversized and overwhelming shapes as a petite. Shopping the last few years was a total nightmare.
I want us to go back to when leopard prints reflect an appreciation for the classics. I want those mob wife channeling besties to bust out some Plato whilst chugging champagne with Sunday breakfast.
My spouse was in the Navy. I had access to real Navy bellbottom jeans in the early '70s. The Navy jeans had no outer seam, so the fit around the hips was really on the bias of the fabric. They felt, and made me feel sexy. I was 23. I have only ever owned one item of clothing that was vaguely leopard print. I do not like animal prints, never have. I remember years when it took really hunting to find clothes that I liked that were not leopard print. It was everywhere. In the late '60s, I remember faux fur bikinis, and in the very early '70s, platform shoes with the sole at the toe 3 inches thick. Now I live in Birkenstocks for the comfort.
Thank you for always sharing you knowledge and research. My approach to "fashion" has always been comfort. If it isn't comfortable to wear it's not going into my closet or drawers. I've never been one for following trends. I tend to do my own thing.😁😉
I bought several high waist, bell bottomed pants from fashion brands about 8-5 years ago. I think it was in the gap between skinny and the mom jeans.... Some had slits as well. Maybe it was not a widespread trend, or only Europe....
So engaging, insightful, and funny as always! I laughed out loud seeing the leopard print 18th century clothes. I had no idea that that was a trend and I absolutely love it.
I have a couple of skinny jeans I'm considering putting gussets in tk make them more like flared bottoms 🤔 (I just hate skinny jeans, always have even when they were popular. Sensory nightmare. I used to buy tmjeans two sizes too big so they wouldn't be as tight 😅)
Speaking of unbalanced styles: men's fashion in the mid to (especially) late 15th century. The super short doublets with the big (lombard?) sleeves, oh lord. They are just so absolutely silly looking!
What idiot throws away clothes that aren't worn out? I still wear most of the clothes I bought in the 2000s and only replace a garment when it's got holes in it
Same here. If it's not utterly threadbare, then I will still wear it. And if it is threadbare, I will try to use it for something functional, like stuffing for toys
We also have access to so much to buy as well as so much inspiration image-wise. I remember pouring over any fashion magazine I could get my hands on in the 1990s. Now I can find images from the last few decades on pinterest, few years on IG and tiktok, etc. Constant new ideas!
I think the discription of making Suede was as you say but nowerdays that would be called numbuck. Suede is the opposit when you turn down the fleshside but in reallity it mostly just split leather which is crap all around. Anyway in sweden Suede is called mocka. Apparently after the city in Yemen. We also called coffey that back in the days. Probably because of some rasist reason...
Do you think media affects fashion (i.e. the Bonnie and Clyde movie kicking off a 1930s revival in the late 60s) or do you think fashion affects media (i.e. a movie becomes emblematic of an era's existing fashion)?
Regarding silhouettes, does anyone have any resource suggestions for what goes with what? I don't have intuition for this, so it's a skill I'm going to have to pick up instead.
What looks good on you is your personal balance. Some people can wear an oversized sweater with baggy wide leg trousers and look gorgeous and other people need to wear every item but one tightly fitted to not look frumpy. Finding the style that looks good on you is a big adventure. Easiest is starting with the outfits that get you compliments. Where are they fitted and where do they not follow your body shape. Ask a friend with an eye for it and go through your wardrobe and look foor new combinations. Although there are some trendy / fashion looks, it is not very strict: If you wear what suits you you are looking good. For some more silhouette info Google: Kibbe, personal style or body shapes. wardrobe.
I really wonder what we gonna think about this era we live in.. Will there be a distinct character?? As a 00s baby I truly detest 00s fashion, please lord do not let it be a tiktok era. Amen.
I was a teen in the 90'ies, and I HATED the fashion of the second half of the decade, it was depressing, the 60'ies-70'ies came back. The flair trousers are hideous. The period between circa 1966-1977 can be considered as a cime against tasteand good sense. My eyes bleed when I see clothes from that era *shudder*
I was a teen in the 90s as well, and I LOVED hippie 70s fashion. It was the Y2K fashions, when I was in uni, which I despised. These days I still like some late-60s-early-70s fashion, but I prefer the Mod era. The silhouette suits me.
