Strange Fashion of Yore

By Alex in Fashion on Jan 19, 2009 at 3:47 am

Mental_floss blog has a very entertaining post about the 10 strange fashion of yore. This one to the left is the motoring hood, which people used to wear to go driving!

Other gems include a steel collar (gorget), transparent ruffles (which exposes quite a bit of the wearer’s chest), lovelock and pattens (strange,
strange precursor of the high heel): Link


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  1. ted
    Jan 19th, 2009 at 8:16 am

    Looks like what they used to wear for drive-by shootings on the Model T.

  2. Edward
    Jan 19th, 2009 at 11:39 am

    I would have preferred some references and illustrations.

  4. arrghiamapirate
    Jan 19th, 2009 at 8:37 pm

    Never forget the Codpiece!


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