The fashion according to the transformations of the society

Evolution of the women's fashion between 1828 and 1870. The young woman in pink of 1828 wears the lightest dress.
The following ones, 1836, 44 and 52 are more cumbersome but still relatively free.
2 last ones, on 1869 and 70 (le time of the war of 1870) give an impression of heaviness and rigidity.
We pass in France of toilet full of lightness, in heavy cumbersome dresses,
and it over a period of 50 years, from 1830 till 1880.
Reproductions extracted from diverse publications of Fashion.     
Photomontage of reproductions - 2015 - width 81x38cm - fashion-time

From left to right, a group of middle-class persons of 1760, a middle-class person of 1780 and a 'supernatural' of 1810.
We see here also, in a almost more blatant way, the state of the society on the eve of the Revolution, through its clothes,
and how it is transformed 30 years later.
Engravings extracted from 'Suits coloured by the Parisian in all the periods', complement to 'Paris through centuries'
of Henri Gourdon de Genouillac.      
Photomontage of reproductions - 2015 - original 47x26cm - fashion-1760-1810

Suits in France by 1858 - from left to right :
An inhabitant of Pays de Caux, inhabitants of Macon, in the background, a couple of Breton, mountain dwellers of the Hautes-Pyrénées, couple of Parisian,
and a Savoyard young person.
The couple of Parisian is represented in toilet such as we found proposed in all the fashion magazines of this time.    
Reproduction of the ' World in prints ' - original 18x24cm - fashion-France

Detail of the reproduction above - The couple of Parisian

Parisians visiting the Zoological garden in 1897 - Long severe dress which can be decorated by a more fancy blouse (woman in the background) and with hats overloaded with flowers. A heavy style which was next in the same period of the much more bravely free dresses (see the reproduction below).     
Reproduction of the Small newspaper of 1897 - 2015 - original 36x26cm - 5d2f_1941

The culotte was born, it seems, with the use of the bicycle by the ladies.
We have here the representation of the scene of the marriage in 1897
of Mister Pécolle and Miss Latourne - .It is specified in the article
of the 'Small newspaper' that the men wore silk breeches.     
Reproduction of the Small newspaper de1897 - original 26x36cm - 5d2f_1943

Other reflection of the 1890s - This reproduction of Ferdinand Roybet's painting,
showed in 1893, stages a farmer, in its dress of every day, laughing in the advances of a handsome hunk in brightly coloured coat.
In fact the clothes of every day of this farmer could be contemporary,
while the more sought dress of the man is well the one of a bygone days.      
Reproduction of the Small newspaper de1897 - original 26x36cm - 5d2f_1945

In the year 2010 the fashion is very minimalist, the daily fashion being marked,
as here, by light details, as the false wears of the jeans, the bottoms of the pants turned,
the carefully chosen bag, the small jacket to the collar of fur.     
Paris - 2010 - Num 21 Mpx - 5d2_5894

Another aspect of the current utilitarian fashion which hides nothing of the anatomy of the person; simple short skirt in cotton, without any decoration nor effect of manufacturing ; We respect simply here the fact that a woman owes wear a skirt (or a dress) according to a custom which remains anchored well in our societies.     
Paris - 2003 - Num 6 Mpx - 10da_4653

But the feminine, reference dress in our contemporary cities, stays this style of dress, leaving the woman free of its movements,
while being of a shape very studied in all its details.     
Paris - 2012 - Num 21 Mpx - 5d2d_0586

I think that this view reflects well enough the current state of the women's fashion,
in cities in the mode of western life.
3/4 of the ladies are in pants or in tights, and if there is skirt or dress,
this one must be easy to wear.     
Tourists on the square of the Louvre - Paris - on 2014 - Num 21 Mpx - 5d2e_6299