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Have you seen the new thong or seam jeans? Would you wear them? It got us thinking about strange fashion trends in history - there have been plenty of strange short and long lived trends. Angela Lassig, a dress & textile historian takes us through other unusual fashion looks, from underwear as outwear, bustle knickers and meat frocks.
Satirical print - “Laceing a dandy”
Published in London, January 26th, 1819 by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside,
Court Robe - circa 1750. British Silk, metallic thread. Collection: Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Garments from Comme des Garcon’s Body Meets Body, Dress Meets Body collection (Spring/Summer 1997) on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Spring 2017 exhibition, Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between.
Bordaloue (lady’s chamber pot) 1757-8. Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Vivienne Westwood’s corset with print based on the François Boucher oil painting 'Daphnis and Chloe' c. 1743. From her Autumn/Winter collection 1990
Vivienne Westwood’s bustle knickers, Spring/Summer 1995 collection
Front cover of Melbourne’s The Sun newspaper featuring Jean Shrimpton in a mini-dress, 1 November 1965
Madonna performing in Japan on April 13 1990 on her Blonde Ambition tour, wearing John Paul Gaultier’s cone bra/corset outfit
Open Shirt – Limited Edition – Mr Harry, 1992
Pip Culbert (Artist)
Cotton and buttons
Pip Culbert Open Shirt Mr Harry
Naomi Campbell’s famous fall wearing Vivienne Westwood’s towering ‘Super Elevated Gillie’ shoe on the Paris runway in 1993
Lady Gaga in her ‘Meat Dress’, designed by Franc Fernandez for her appearance at the 2010 MTV Video Music Award
Dita Von Teese wearing a 3D-laser printed dress, designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitoni, 2013
