The next piece of research I want to do is around denim, based on the shirt Carlos is wearing. In advance of that, I want to set down some thoughts about the fabric, before I start getting biased by what comes up in the research. Denim is a cotton-based fabric. It’s quite stiff, it’s usually […]
An unlikely source (he probably doesn’t want to be named here) pointed me at Laver’s Law. It’s a table that summarises the view of fashion over time, and was coined in 1937 by a chap called James Laver, a fashion historian. It goes like this: 10 years before its time is: Indecent 5 years before […]
I’ve been looking, fairly closely, at the sports jacket. As discussed, it’s an off-shoot of the suit jacket, which in itself gave rise to the odd jacket, the blazer, and a few other variations. Now, I want to take a step back, and consider not just the history, which is worth looking at in and of […]