British Fashion through the Ages

Here you will find articles about British fashion and costume from Norman times through to the 1960s.

Here you will find articles about British fashion and costume from Norman times through to the 1960s. View the outfits and fashions of the Middle Ages, the Tudors and Stuarts, Civil War and the Georgians. From Jane Austen and Queen Victoria through to the hippies of the 1960s.

British Costume Fashion through the Ages – Part One.
1050 to 1490: 11th to 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses.

British Costume Fashion through the Ages – Part Two.
16th and 17th centuries: Tudors and Stuarts and the English Civil War.

British Costume Fashion through the Ages – Part Three.
1730 to 1830: The Georgians / Regency period, the time of Jane Austen.

British Costume Fashion through the Ages – Part Four.
The 19th and 20th centuries: The Victorians, Edwardians, World War One, Roaring Twenties, World War Two, The New Look, Swinging Sixties

Elizabeth Vernon at her dressing table wears an embroidered linen jacket over her rose-pink corset, 1590s.

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Traditional Welsh Costume

By Ben Johnson

The Welsh National Dress that we think of today is based on rural women's traditional costume

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