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Are you wondering how to look vintage chic wearing smart everyday clothes and fashion accessories? Do you want to change your usual dressing style for a sophisticated and classy look? If you want to dress classy in a vintage-inspired way, even with some of your everyday clothes, you will find some helpful tips on how to achieve the style. You don't really need to change your entire wardrobe, neither do you need to have a hefty budget for this. Rather, what you need are some basics in your clothing collections and a good number of accessories. Classic Vintage Fashion Accessories We all know how accessorising can help dictate a vintage style; shoes, jewellery, hats, bags, etc... and as long as you take care of these finer details, you’ll be able to achieve that lady-like charm that’s so characteristic of vintage fashion. So, how do you create the style of fashionable women of old with your modern clothing? By adding the most unexpected details to your ordinary-looking outfits. Let u...

Fashion design and clothing styles come and go, moving in an almost cyclic manner where the old becomes the new and eventually fades away back into the past that will one day also be tagged as vintage clothing. Many vintage-inspired styles we see today have appeared a number of times over the decades albeit modified to suit the trends of the time. A silk dress, worn with the hobble skirt While some of these clothing styles still maintain some detailing features, not many possess the meticulous attention detail which made their designs great, neither are they made with such gorgeous fabrics, common elements of the past. For those who absolutely love vintage style clothing, they’ll find that such unique beauty and finery is rarely present in modern day designs. But then, fashion hasn’t always been that impressive and some were unbecoming. And though we might have thought that some of them were 'cool' styles during their era, in all honesty, many of them were not! Clothing Styles ...

Have you ever wondered how women's underwear came to be? Aren’t you a bit curious about what undergarments women wore centuries ago? The history of wearing undergarments for women is quite interesting. It started from wearing nothing underneath to tying a loin-cloth (popular in Imperial Rome and ancient Egypt) under outer garments. By the Middle Ages, women underwear was mainly a long loose garment called a shift, but no pants were worn under these. It is said that women did not wear underpants or what we know as drawers until the late 18th century. Not much is known about earlier bust supports. There are however finding that as early as the 14th to the 15th century, 'breast bags' evolved, quite crude at the time - two cloth bags sewed into shirts and tightened with a band. By the 16th century, some women began to wear open drawers tied to the waist with strings. Wireframes made with whalebone called a farthingale, became an item of clothing that served as an undergarment. ...