How Historical Fashion Keeps Making Comebacks

We all know that fashion is circular, and whatever was fashionable in the past will inevitably make a comeback. Even now, some elements from as recent as the 1970s and 1980s such as the iconic high-waisted jeans are a big deal, and vintage versions are selling for huge amounts to some collectors. With that said, what if this circular habit is extended even further back in time?

Classical Fashion

Not to be confused with classic fashion, classical is all about the Ancient Romans and Ancient Greeks, and those are both topics with a habit of returning again and again. The Greeks in particular feature throughout modern culture, from brand names to movies to even online casinos. To highlight the points, there are thousands of people who play the Age of the Gods slot online every day, and that’s part of a massive series of slot titles featuring statuesque versions of everyone from Zeus to Hades in different iterations.

In clothing terms, we just keep seeing it coming back. In the courts of 18th Century France, Greek-inspired dresses were all the rage amongst noble ladies. It then made another comeback in the late 20th Century, with such massive designers like Jean Paul Gautier and Chloé releasing collections in the 1990s. The appeal is often noted to be that ‘goddess’ appeal the designs can inspire.

Victorian Fashion

Out of the many incredible inventions and innovations that happened during the Victorian Era, the fashion can sometimes be overlooked. For devotees, however, this was the golden age of a clothing item still very much in fashion today: the corset. While it was certainly not invented by the Victorians, and can actually be traced back even further than the Ancient Greeks above, they made it a staple of the dress code.

It was again the 1990s that saw the corset come back into style for the first time in almost a century, with another spike in popularity from the 2010s onwards. Of course, Victorian corset models were infamous for causing the wearer all kinds of issues thanks to often being overly restrictive, and modern versions are a lot more accommodating.

1920s Fashion

While it may be hard to believe, we are a full 100 years on from the start of the 1920s, one of the first eras of history still widely known to the imagination thanks to the dawn of Hollywood. That particular era of cinema has always held an amazing feeling of glamour thanks to huge stars like Buster Keaton or Bebe Daniels, and it’s no wonder that the style keeps reappearing in modern fashion.

Aside from the legendary little black dress that Vogue ranks as revolutionary as the Ford Model T, there are elements like the flapper style and the first real tomboyish fashion in “La Garçonne” we see adapted and repeated in modern collections. Both Chanel and Jean-Paul Gautier have heavy 20s inspiration in their 24/25 collections, and we’re on track for a full movement a century removed.

If you’re looking for the next big trend in fashion, we always suggest looking back into the past first. After all, if it worked once, what reason is there for it not to work again?