From 1895 dresses and blouses often featured very very high 
dog collar styles on necklines. This style reached high to 
the jaw and was made popular by the then Princess Alexandra 
who had a small scar on her neck. 

Jeans history would be nothing without Levi Strauss. Levi 
Strauss is credited with inventing jeans. Levi Strauss 
emigrated with his family to New York in 1847. He moved to 
San Francisco in the early 1850s and about 20 years later a 
solvent Levi Strauss and a Nevada tailor joined forces 
to patent an idea the tailor had for putting rivets on 
stress points of workman's waist high overalls commonly 
known as jeans. Levi Strauss chose to use the stronger 
denim fabric and cotton duck, putting his own name on 
the product. Later the duck fabric was dropped as consumers 
found denim more comfortable, particularly after washing 
creating the faded bloom on the indigo blue dyeing that we 
all love. Eventually in the 1950s people asked for denim 
jeans or just as often - Levi's jeans rather than waist 
overalls. Other manufacturers began to produce jeans and 
other brand names such as Lee Coopers and Wranglers also 
became famous. Each brand is renowned for having a 
particular cut.

Worth Founded the First Chambre Syndicale in 1868.  The 
original was called Chambre Syndicale De La Confection Et 
De La Couture Pour Dames Et Fillettes. The initial purpose 
was intended to stop couture designs being copied. The 
organization has progressed and changed its name with the 
times in an effort to promote French fashion and the French 
Haute Couture style.

A designer touch sometimes used on the shoulders of a 
garment is a decorative epaulet called a Mancheron.

Workshops where feathers were dyed and made into 
arrangements were called plumassiers.

Designers of the period include the Houses of Worth, 
Redfern, Paquin, Lucile, Fortuny, Doucet, Callot Soeurs, 
and Poiret.

Butterick and later the McCall's Pattern Company, helped 
make home dressmaking more successful by the introduction 
of paper patterns.

Burberry patented as cloth called gabardine in 1879. He 
then began making all types of gabardine clothes for field 
sports and items that are today country classics. He opened 
a shop in London in 1891 and then the firm spread to Paris, 
Berlin and New York. In its original form the trench coat 
was part of First World War airmen's military uniform. 
Today it is a classic garment.

The Casaque was a deep close fitting basque jacket that 
buttoned to the neck. The item allowed for the cut of the 
bustles and pads of the era and the garments ranged from 
high hip to three quarter length.

cult designer limited edition bag designed by Alexander 
McQueen in 2005. 

Grunge was based on fashion started by a youth cult in the 
Pacific North West region of America in the early 1990s. 
The key to the look was that nothing matched, nothing was 
coordinated and an item was preferable if old and worn.