Last month, we took a leap into the distant past with a brief history of 1900s period fashion. That was the first post in a series of ten that will explore the history of women’s fashion in typical blog form.
Be on the lookout for my personal Eidia Lush custom design, period inspired shoe designs that will be linked in each post. If you love the design and want to complete your decade fashion look, all you have to do is click on the link, choose your size and (this one’s tough) wait patiently for one of our talented cobblers to create your newest pair of pumps.
Between the years of 1910 and 1919, fashion
took a turn toward exotic lavishness particularly influenced by Orientalism.
Parisian couturier Paul
Poiret, was among the most highly influential designers of the
period truly bringing Orientalism in fashion to life.
Jacques Doucet, a French designer, and Italian designer Mariano Fortuny, were also key figures in the fashion world of this decade. Interestingly, during this era, which paved the way for the 1920’s Jazz Age, the first female couturier, Jeanne Paquin, organized the first real fashion shows.
As Paquin made strides for female fashion designers, Poiret began designing clothes for uncorseted figures aiding in the liberation of women who began to throw away their corsets as the trend to loosen up clothing caught on.
Women moved away from the stylistic emphasis on accentuating curvature, instead opting for a lowered and less defined waistline, particularly as the decade neared its close.
A tunic worn over a long underskirt was the preferred style at the beginning of the teens but as the decade wore on into World War I women began to wear calf-length dresses over angle-length underskirts out of necessity for work-appropriate attire.
Almost all women’s shoes in this era were rounded at the toe and had slightly curved heels. Ankle straps were common as a result of the tango dance craze. Even shoes could not evade the colorful and exotic treatment of Paul Poiret!
It should come as no surprise that I could not resist Poiret’s influence when designing my custom interpretation of 1910s footwear with Eidia Lush: In the Style of Paul Poiret.
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