A Guide to : Fashion History Timeline (part I)

Sorry for the super long hiatus!

Just about two days ago i got a super amazing gala dinner for my medical faculty birthday with the theme of Retro Vintage, so i just wanna share my experience in travelling, finding the right fashion for that!

So, basically Retro style is style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the recent past. The term of retro used since the 1940, so, retro fashion refers to fashion from 1940-1990. Retro fashion is a clothing style which consists in wearing clothes commonly used in the past. This way of clothing often includes garments and accessories that are characteristic of such times, and many people use them in an exaggerated way and in combination with current clothing.

Since, there's a lot of things going on in 1940-1990, i'll just make it shorter like this :

early 40's -

Most of the women's fashions during the 1940s were designed with the same squared shoulders, small waist, and skirt above the knee

late 40's - New Look

By 1947, after WWII was over, the "New Look" began to replace the wartime utility fashions. This new style embraced femininity, with rounded shoulders, shapely bust lines, closely-defined waistlines, slightly padded skirts, and full, billowing skirts that hung just below the calves.
early 50's - Dirndl & Poodle Skirt  
Christian Dior's "New Look" of 1947 continued to influence the fashions of the 1950s. The dirndl dress, either sleeveless or with small puff sleeves and having a billowy skirt, became an extremely popular style. This type of casual attire was the hallmark of 1950s fashions. Also, The poodle skirts is famous among teenagers.

late 50's -

By the late 1950s, the long, slim look had returned. Long skirts or dresses were popular, often worn with short jackets.

early 60's - Jackie Kennedy

 The first half of the sixties mimicked the late 50s with shirt-waist dresses , turtle necks , pencil skirts, blouses in pastel colors. The only notable difference is the hem-line shrunk an inch or so above the knee. Women in this era also mimicked Jacqueline Kennedy as their references style.

late 60's - Hippies & Mod 
Hippies and Mod were in 1964-1969. These famous styles were not fully welcomed in the streets until the mid sixties, (64-66). Woman sported box dresses, mini skirts , turtle necks, go-go boots and beehives brought on by the British Invasion in 1964

early 70's - All Bright
Early 1970s fashion was a fun era. It culminated some of the best elements of the 60s and perfected and/or exaggerated them. Some of the best clothing produced in the 1970s perfectly blended the mods with the hippies. There is one common theme throughout fashion in the 1970s: pants were tight fitting 

late 70's - Disco

Color almost completely disappeared by 1979. Earth tones, grays, whites and blacks were back in full force, as people had apparently tired of the super bright tones of the early 1970s. The Disco & sportwear clothes are also popular in this era.

early 80's - Minimalism
 The early 1980s were very different from the rest of the decade, with some carryovers from the late 1970s. The early 1980s saw a minimalist approach to fashion, with less emphasis on accessories, and practicality considered just as much as aesthetics. Clothing colors were subdued, quiet and basic; varying shades of brown, tan, and orange were common

late 80's - Aerobics
Women's apparel in the late 1980s included jackets (both cropped and long), coats (both cloth and fake fur), reversible inside-out coats (leather on one side, fake fur on the other), rugby sweatshirts, sweater dresses, tafetta and pouf dresses, baby doll dresses, jumpsuits, miniskirts, stretch pants, tapered pants, happy pants (homemade pants made in bold designs with bright colors), and opaque tights. The aerobics styled like leg warmers, bright stockings, also popular in this time. 
 

Phew, a lotta style in just 50 years, right?

My personal favourite is actually the 40's era, both for New look & Dirndl. So i decided to sew a little (actually, a dress) and trying to make some accessories for the 40's look. You can see the complete result the dress, accessories i made in :

Part II, A guide to : Retro Vintage

So since this is only a brief history, you can also look up on wikipedia, or retrowaste, or uvm.edu for further reading. I hope this help, thanks for reading!