Who Created The Bustle?

Who Created The Bustle? On this day in 1857, a New York man named Alexander Douglas patented the bustle. It took almost another decade for Douglas’s invention to gain in popularity. During this decade, the fashion world reached the heights of the skirt-circumference arms race that characterized mid-nineteenth-century women’s fashion. Why was the bustle created?

Where Did Mini Skirts Originate From?

Where Did Mini Skirts Originate From? 1964: If anyone should be credited with pioneering the miniskirt it is British designer Mary Quant. Quant opened what became the iconic boutique Bazaar in 1955 on King’s Road in London’s Chelsea neighborhood. When did mini skirts start? Mary Quant has often been credited with ‘inventing’ the miniskirt –