♥history of fashion designs♥

According to research, fashion designs started since 19th century. The influence of English dress on America, the growth of the industry, and the impact fashion had on English and American cultures is documented throughout the century through various literary means. Fashion in Literature Nineteenth-century transatlantic literature reflected the importance and progression of fashion British author Charles Dickens references the importance of the female seamstress and her role in English society, as well as ideas surrounding femininity in his novel Little Dorrit (Famine 55). Dickens' American Notes continues to illustrate a preoccupation with the fashion of both American and English with his opinion regarding the dress of American women (Dickens 36). American author Leander Richardson's The Dark City: Customs of the Cockneys further compares the relationship between American fashion trends in New York and Boston with those of London women.