1900's Teen Fashion

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I've always been interested in vintage fashion so here is an overview of 1900 teen fashion.

At the turn of the century, the Gibson girl look was still the most coveted fashion for girls. The Gibson girl, whose name came from the glamourous ladies in 1890's magazine illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson, wore her long hair drawn away from face, full and loose on the sides and piled high on top and in back. She wore a high, tight collar on her shirtwaist, with large "leg of mutton" sleeves, a sinched waist, and a long, slightly flowers and feathers. Ger full-bosomed, tiny-waisted figure was usually the product of a boned, laced corset, with heavy petticoats, bloomers, and stockings underneath her skirt, and low-heeled pumps. For evening, dresses were cut very low to show lots of bosom and shoulder. The look was queenly, mature, rounded; it could be worn by women from their teens well into middle age.

Charles Dana Gibson the creator of the Gibson girl fashion.

                                               

hats from the 1900's

                                                             
                                                
Daily wear for teen girls around 1918 was much simpler. Especially popular was the sailor-style dress: white, with a full skirt stopping just above the ankles, a wide collar, and a dark tie in front. For party wear, the style might be adapted in sheer, floating fabrics edged with lace. Teen girls took pride in very long hair, usually pulled back into a coil at the neck, or, for the traditional "sweet sixteen" portrait, coaxed into long "tube curls" over the shoulder and adorned with a large black bow in back. When girls graduated from childhood to early adulthood, they donned corsets, lengthend their skirtsm wore elaborate hats for day and a lower neckline for evening, and abandoned long, flowing hair tied back with ribbons for an upswept haido with pins to hold it in place.

A Gibson Girl sweater.

 Gibson Girl Vintage leg o mutton sleeves.

                                                                     

A young teen girl wearing a Gibson Girl styled clothes.

               Boys wore knickers- loose pants that stopped just below the knee- with long socks and sometimes a close-fitting jacket and cloth cap. Shoes were probably hightopped with buttons. It was an important day in a boy's life when he got his first long pants, usually around the age of fourteen. Older boys wore slim, buttoned jackets and trousers for day with shirts with high, detachable shirt collars and narrow ties. They cut their hair short and wore fewer beards and mustaches than they had in the mid-nineteenth century. Their hats were generally flat-crowned straw boaters, a style adopted by girls.

two French boys wearing knickerbockers, 1900.

                                                                    
During these decades, children apperantly looked forward to dressing like mature women and men, and their parents made little effort to adopt the styles of the young- one of the most visible differences between the culture of 1910 and that of the last half of the century.