Time Travel 1940-1955 1910-1925

Fashion from 1900

1900 the BRASSIERE

1900 -1915 HAIR, pads and frames of false hair was used to make hair appear fuller.


1902 the ‘TRANSFORMATION’ pompadour style. Transformation was a product used, made from natural hair it was waved. The transformation support often referred to as a pompadour frame was easy to buy.


2 Types of Edwardian Hair Frames
Edwardian Back Hair Tournure Frames for the Empire Style of Hair Dressing


Marie Stuart Frame
Other frames including the Marie Stuart frame like the one below gave a heart shaped Elizabethan look to the hair once covered over with billows of hair natural or false.


Hair was often collected from by the maid from the wearer’s hair brush, so that the hair could be added to the piece, making it fuller till and matching perfectly in colour!

Natural False Hair Pieces
False rosettes, false switches and plaits (1) ensured a wide range of coiffure styling. Women also used extra curls and small wave pieces (2 and 3) that they pinned in to fill in gaps in their hairstyles.
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The hair roll support on the end (4) ensured the Edwardians were able to make big fat sausage curls all around the head. These hair roll supports came in all sizes from about 4 inches to 18 inches in length.
1902 Cloche Hat


1910 famous and memorable black Ascot meeting where all participants wore black and large wide picture hats (in respect of King Edwards’s death).

1910 Poiret’s famous maharaja turban design became very popular.



1913 Hemlines started to show a little ankle.

1918 Skirt lengths were just below calf length.

1918 Veil Hat

1918 Coco channel started producing TWINSETS.

1920 (Coco) WIDE LEGGED TROUSERS for woman. (Based on bell bottoms).

1922 (Coco) wider generously cut BEACH PJAMAS.

1925 BRASSERIERS became adjustable and have division between breasts. By late 20’s Kestro Company made 2 triangle pieces of fabric with a dart at the front creating the ‘cup’. By late 30’s Boning was introduced.

1926 the LITTLE BLACK DRESS first appeared in Vogue (Coco Channel)